. Field, fort and fleet ... com-pany. A hundred return to represent a regiment. Out of brigadesscarcely a full regiment can be found. Pettigrew, Armistead,Kemper, and Garnett are dead or wounded—field officers are Vol I- 30 466 GETTYSBURG — THE TIIIKD DAT. among every heap of dead — regiments with scarcely a captain picture of fifteen thousand men marching forward with wavingflags and steady step had been framed in blood and veiled withdeath. Lee had played his last card, and lost! Again night falls upon hill and ridge and field and valley, andthe roar of cannon and the crack of muske
. Field, fort and fleet ... com-pany. A hundred return to represent a regiment. Out of brigadesscarcely a full regiment can be found. Pettigrew, Armistead,Kemper, and Garnett are dead or wounded—field officers are Vol I- 30 466 GETTYSBURG — THE TIIIKD DAT. among every heap of dead — regiments with scarcely a captain picture of fifteen thousand men marching forward with wavingflags and steady step had been framed in blood and veiled withdeath. Lee had played his last card, and lost! Again night falls upon hill and ridge and field and valley, andthe roar of cannon and the crack of musketry sink into silence. The wind blows in fitful temper — the pure, white face of theharvest moon seeks to veil itself behind the driving clouds. Thedead and wounded lay thickly here last night, but on this nighteven the greed of War is appeased. Sixteen thousand Federaldead and wounded, and nineteen thousand Confederate rest on thisfield ! God in His pity for the living brings night to shut theawful sight from
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