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| Pickett's Charge 1913 Gettysburg Reunion |
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A Summation of the Battle of Gettysburg (Famous Events, 1913)
This essay clearly states why the Battle of Gettysburg is a significant event in Civil War history, what the Rebels intended and why the battle was such a decisive victory for the Federal Army:"In the first rush the Confederates were successful, the scattered Union regiments under General Hancock were pressed back. But on the second day, the main body of the Northern army under General Meade arrived, and the contest held even, with awful slaughter on both sides. The third day the Confederates made one last desperate charge..."
| With the First Texas Regiment at Gettysburg (Confederate Veteran, 1922)
This is the Gettysburg reminiscence of one W.T. White, veteran of the First Texas Infantry Regiment, who has documented his experience on Little Round Top in other writings, but preferred to dwell on some other "glorious moments" on this page.
As a result of their charge up Little Round Top, the boys of the Twentieth Maine sent the First Texas Infantry to the bottom of the hill leaving 25 dead, 20 missing and 48 wounded.
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