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Identifier: magazineofamericv18stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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en fury, swaying to n the i ressure, but swaying forward again like ocean surges »ck. This creates disorder, heightened by the men of Harrows i that direction, apparently without orders or concert, >me instinct of hurrying to the rescue. Everything was in mental organization was lost, ranks were eight or ten deep, ing, struggling, refusing to yield, but almost impotent for ap yawns immediately between Webb and Hall. width of the Oak Grove and for some distance to the right n <lni!f, (Pushing, Brown, Rorty, and every other commissioned n .it exception, of the respective batteries, is dead or dis- 1 ribbon badly wounded. oted Second Corps, whose proud boast it was that it nevero hi cumb at last ?Mallon, hi adlong rush of horses feet, spurred to the utmost, came behind from the direction of the Baltimore pike. I turned. I ■ mbodiment of the god of war, rode Hancock, the ■ SOME ACCOUNT OF PICKETT S CHARGE AT GETTYSBURG l7
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GENERAL HANCOCK PAUSING TO GIVE THE ORDER TO COLONEL DEVEREUX. I shouted as he nearly trampled on my men, still lying down and as yetunseen by him. He threw his horse on its haunches. See, I cried, u their colors ; they have broken through. Let me getin there. His characteristic answer fitted time and place, and he shot like an arrowpast my left toward Halls struggling lines, receiving in a few seconds thewound that swept him from his saddle and so nearly cost him his life. Meanwhile Mallon, springing from my side, was instantly with his men,and both regiments on the double quick moved side by side to fill that fear-ful gap. The two lines came together with a shock which stopped bothand caused a slight rebound. For several minutes they faced and firedinto each other at a distance (which I carefully measured after the fight) alittle short of fifteen paces. Everything seemed trembling in the balance. Vol. XVIII.—No. 1—2 OUNT OF PICKETTS CHARGE AT GETTYSBURG ■ could gel a motion fo

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