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Title: Popular history of the civil war
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Cheney, C. Emma (Clara Emma)
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Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ion armywas at Pipe-Clay Creek, about twenty-five miles south.Bufords cavalry was attacked by General A. P. Hill, westof Seminary Ridge. Reynolds heard the firing, and hurriedforward, but was killed very soon after he arrived on thebattle-field. Howard, as next in rank, succeeded Reynoldsin command. He was driven back by superior numbers,and retreated to Cemetery Hill; which position he after-ward steadily held. Lees army then entered the town.That night General Hancock superseded Howard by orderof General Meade. Late in the afternoon the assault hadbeen so violent, that it decided the day for the Confeder-ates. Toward the close of the battle, an officer of the SixthWisconsin approached his commander with firm step andtightly shut lips. Making a great effort to speak, he said, Tell them at home that I died like a man and a soldier.Then baring his breast, he showed a cruel wound anddropped dead. The Union army slept on their arms inthe cemetery that night. Before morning the main army,
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THE COLOR-BEARER. 1863.) Defeat and Victory. 357 excepting Sedgwicks corps, arrived, and took position alongCemetery Hill. Stretched along the crest of Seminary Ridge, about a mileaway, hidden by the trees, lay the rebel army. Skirmishingbegan in the morning; but until noon, July 2, there was notmuch system or effect in the firing. About two in the after-noon Sedgwicks corps came in, and was placed in reservebehind Little Round Top; and at four oclock, the entireConfederate line advanced, Ewell on our right. Hill in thecentre, and Longstreet at the left. Longstreet fell uponSickles, whose line was in front of the ridge of PeachOrchard. Although their leader lost his leg, and was carriedoff the field, Sickless troops fought well, yielding only inchby inch, when overwhelmed by superior numbers, WrightsGeorgian rebels fought desperately. They reached the verycrest of the ridge, but, being unsupported, were forced toretire. As they came on, a Union battery was limbered up,and galloped off

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