Category: History - American
PAGE Foreword 3 Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address 4 The Battle of Gettysburg 5-10 Location of the Armies. General Lee’s Plan. Lee’s First Movement. Hooker’s Plan. The Appointment of Meade. Advance of Lee. Meade’s Movement. Stuart’s Movement. Situation of Confederate Forces on June...
“The most profound calm reigned now, where a few hours before so furious a tempest had raged. The moon, with her smiling face, mounted up in the starry heavens as at Chancellors...
2. Part 2“_I had studied the position a few moments, when a report reached me that General Reynolds was wounded. At first I hoped his wound might be slight and that he would continue to...
4. Part 4The 12th Corps of the Army of the Potomac occupied this part of Meade’s line on the night of the first day and until the afternoon of the 2nd, when the troops were ordered to th...
5. Part 5With a few men he advanced to Cushing’s guns, where he fell, mortally wounded. Cushing also was mortally wounded. Garnett, who was mounted, was killed a short distance from the...
3. Part 3“Ewell was a most interesting and eccentric character. It is said that in his early manhood he had been disappointed in a love affair, and had never fully recovered from its eff...
7. Part 7The Park is a monument to the devotion of this Commission, in active operation for thirty years. Colonel Cope was succeeded (1931) by Colonel E. E. Davis, a native of Iowa, comm...
1. Part 1PAGE Foreword 3 Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address 4 The Battle of Gettysburg 5-10 Location of the Armies. General Lee’s Plan. Lee’s First Movement. Hooker’s Plan. The Appointment of...
8. Part 8After its delivery on the day of commemoration, he expressed deep regret that he had not prepared it with greater care. He said to me on the stand, immediately after concluding...