. Book of the Royal blue . iTWkmt). THE ANGLE IN THE ROADS WHEKE PICKETT MADE HIS lAIVIOUS CHARIIE AT UETTVSIMliC west of Willoughby Run, for the assault byHills corps that was to sweep the Uniontroops off Seminary Ridge. To preventthis, the able General Doubleday, who thencommanded the First Corps, skillfully threwhis two Pennsylvania brigades (of the ThirdDivision) onto the front line, Biddles on thenorth of the woods, and Stones on thesouth of the woods, both on the openground; the Second Division having beensent to the woods extending towards OakHill, somewhat in the direction of Carlisle,
. Book of the Royal blue . iTWkmt). THE ANGLE IN THE ROADS WHEKE PICKETT MADE HIS lAIVIOUS CHARIIE AT UETTVSIMliC west of Willoughby Run, for the assault byHills corps that was to sweep the Uniontroops off Seminary Ridge. To preventthis, the able General Doubleday, who thencommanded the First Corps, skillfully threwhis two Pennsylvania brigades (of the ThirdDivision) onto the front line, Biddles on thenorth of the woods, and Stones on thesouth of the woods, both on the openground; the Second Division having beensent to the woods extending towards OakHill, somewhat in the direction of Carlisle,from where Ewell had been recalled. Forthree long hours (2 to 5 p. m.) these freshtroops received the terrible assaults of anenemy ten times their number, and whennight had come and the defeated corps hadreached Seminary Hill, it was found thatthe First Army Corps had been reducedfrom 9,403 officers and men to 2,400, manyof the regiments losing from fifty to sixtyper cent. The loss of the Light Brigadeat Balaklava was thirty-six pe
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