. Book of the Royal blue . ion troops to secure theeminence just as the Confederates were ascend-ing the western slopi. r.,ongstreet had directedthis fight personally, but his ability shown onthis occasion was overshadowed by his successthree months later, when, in <onuuan<l of theleft wing of Hraggs army at Chicamauga. withsome of Hoods and Mad-quarler baggage. It was in the valley lietween the Round the desperate struggle for l^ittle Round Toptook place, when Vincent, ORorke and Weedand Hazlitt on the Union side were killed. Outat the Wheatfield, Colonels Zook, Taylor iinciCr
. Book of the Royal blue . ion troops to secure theeminence just as the Confederates were ascend-ing the western slopi. r.,ongstreet had directedthis fight personally, but his ability shown onthis occasion was overshadowed by his successthree months later, when, in <onuuan<l of theleft wing of Hraggs army at Chicamauga. withsome of Hoods and Mad-quarler baggage. It was in the valley lietween the Round the desperate struggle for l^ittle Round Toptook place, when Vincent, ORorke and Weedand Hazlitt on the Union side were killed. Outat the Wheatfield, Colonels Zook, Taylor iinciCross were killed, and near the Peach OrchaidGeneral Sickles lost his leg, and General Grahamwas wounded and ca|)tured. In the fight on theSecond Da J was killed and Hnod was 10 A SHORT STORY OF tiKTTVSmiKi ). A SHORT STORY OF GETTYSBURG. 11 wnmulid, Imt wounds tlid not count with Hooii,who afterwards, minus one leg and ono arm,commanded the western Confederate army andfought Slierman near Atlanta. When Longstrcet opened-up his battle, it wasexpected that Ewell, out behind Cemetery Hilland Culps Hill, would, at the same time, attackthe Union lines in his front. He did not hearthe gims of I>ongstreet, however, and so hisattack was not made until six in the evening,when he pushed Johnsons Division against theenemy on the east side of Gulps Hill, and afterfighting two hours gained a lodgment in a partof the works of the Twelfth Corps, which hadbeen vacated by troops called to aid in defend-ing the line on the extreme left against the at-tack of Longstreet. Johnsons troops pushedtheir advance, by nine oclock, as far as the Bal-timore Road, and but for a fear that they, in thedarkness, were being led into a trap, could havepushed on another three hundred yards, to t
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