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In one brigade, numbering 2,800 on July 1st, only 835 answered roll-call three days later. Meade's total losses were also 23,000. Meade had had on the field in all 83,000 men and 300 guns, Lee 69,000 and 250 guns. Gettysburg marks the turning of the tide. The South's dream of getting a foothold in the North was forever past.
A Paris chez les Libraires Associés, 1745. Bishop William Meade's Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia, vol. i., p. 265. To the Masters and Mistresses of Families in the English Plantations abroad; exhorting them to encourage and promote the instruction of their Negroes in the Christian Faith.
It was the hope of General Lee to pound the Union batteries to pieces, and then, while horror and death were still supreme in the Union centre, to thrust forward an overwhelming mass of his best infantry into the gap, cut Meade's army in two, plant the Confederate banner on the crest of the Union battle line, and virtually then and there achieve the independence of the Confederate States.
General H. G. Wright succeeded him in the command of his corps. Hancock was now, nine P.M. of the 9th of May, across the left flank of Lee's army, but separated from it, and also from the remainder of Meade's army, by the Po River.
Hooker astir early The field near the Dunker Church Artillery combat Positions of Hooker's divisions Rocky ledges in the woods Advance of Doubleday through Miller's orchard and garden Enemy's fire from West Wood They rush for Gibbon's battery Repulse Advance of Patrick's brigade Fierce fighting along the turnpike Ricketts's division in the East Wood Fresh effort of Meade's division in the centre A lull in the battle Mansfield's corps reaches the field Conflicting opinions as to the hour Mansfield killed Command devolves on Williams Advance through East Wood Hooker wounded Meade in command of the corps It withdraws Greene's division reaches the Dunker Church Crawford's in the East Wood Terrible effects on the Confederates Sumner's corps coming up Its formation It moves on the Dunker Church from the east Divergence of the divisions Sedgwick's passes to right of Greene Attacked in flank and broken Rallying at the Poffenberger hill Twelfth Corps hanging on near the church Advance of French's division Richardson follows later Bloody Lane reached The Piper house Franklin's corps arrives Charge of Irwin's brigade.
Some of Birney's regiments, tardily coming forward to Meade's support, were swept away, and the yelling line of grey infantry, shooting down the fugitives and taking many prisoners, pressed on towards the Richmond road.
Farnsworth, the gallant young officer who had been a brigadier general but four days, had been killed while leading a charge against infantry behind stone walls. His brigade was compelled to face infantry because all of the confederate cavalry had been massed under Stuart against Meade's right.
Scenes of the field of Gettysburgh The rebel hospitals The sightless rebel soldier boy The Sixth corps at Fairfield "Hurrah for the Union" Kilpatrick's handiwork At Waynesboro' On picket A division of militia The Vermonters at Funkstown The army at Funkstown Meade's failure to attack New York riots Return to Virginia.
But in 1863 the Government was incalculably strengthened by General Meade's victory at Gettysburg and by the opening of the Mississippi River to navigation in consequence of General Grant's capture of the rebel stronghold of Vicksburg. The latter event practically destroyed the military power of the Rebellion on the western side of the Mississippi, and opened, as Mr.
All day long on the 4th of July it remained in view of Meade's army, but he dared not assail it. There was nothing left but to return to Virginia. On the night of the 4th of July the army began to retreat, and on the 7th it halted near Hagerstown and offered battle, which Meade refused.
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