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Identifier: popularhistoryof00chen (find matches)
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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oops upon the LTnion lines. Theycame on as handsomely as if they had been on dress-parade,and moved across the space which lay between the tworidges. As the long lines reached the plain, the LTnion gunspoured a deadly fire upon them. The men only drew thecloser to fill up the gaps. Expecting to meet green troopshiding behind the trenches, they came boldly within musket-range, when up sprang the Union veterans, and burst forthwith such a volley, that the rebels no longer doubted that,the Army of the Potomac was waiting for them. Away wentPettigrews Carolinians, without waiting for orders; andWilcox could not rally Hills corps to the front. So Pickettwas left alone with his Virginia veterans, who loved thesmell of gunpowder. Not even wavering for an instant, theyploughed through the galling fire, up the side of CemeteryHill, over the wall, until they were face to face with theLTnion army. Orders were useless. Officers and men alikefought desperately. The Stars and Stripes almost touched
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i863.) Defeat mid Victory, 361 the Stars and Bars. At last Pickett alone, of all the rebelgenerals, was left. There was one final shock. Custeragainst Wade Hampton, sabre to sabre—and it was over.Some ran away; some surrendered. The ground washeaped with the dying and the dead. General Hancockwas wounded, and borne away on a litter. But Gettysburgwas won for the Union. The cavalry had behaved withdauntless courage through all the fight; and StannardsVermont regiment, though raw troops, had fought likeveterans. It was a heavy blow to Lee. He had gainednothing: he had lost much — too much; for thirty thou-sand of his brave men had fallen. That night, after the sound of the battle had ceased, thebands played The Star-Spangled Banner; and the Unionsoldiers answered with hearty cheers as they lay upon theirarms. The whole town of Gettysburg was turned into ahospital. The Sanitary and Christian Commissions providedevery thing that could relieve the sufferings of the wounded,or tempt the

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