. Gettysburg, the pivotal battle of the Civil War . GEORGE SYKES Com. Gtli Corps. . JOHN SEDGWICK Com. Gth Corps GETTYSBURG Longstreet made the battle without reinforcements,but from start to finish with thirteen brigades and26,000. On the whole it was not so very unequal. Long-street says: My loss was about six thousand,Meades between twelve and fourteen is useless at this point to discuss the Confederatelosses; but Longstreets estimate of the Union lossesis greatly exaggerated. Assuming that the ThirdCorps entire loss of 4,198 was sustained on thesecond of Jul
. Gettysburg, the pivotal battle of the Civil War . GEORGE SYKES Com. Gtli Corps. . JOHN SEDGWICK Com. Gth Corps GETTYSBURG Longstreet made the battle without reinforcements,but from start to finish with thirteen brigades and26,000. On the whole it was not so very unequal. Long-street says: My loss was about six thousand,Meades between twelve and fourteen is useless at this point to discuss the Confederatelosses; but Longstreets estimate of the Union lossesis greatly exaggerated. Assuming that the ThirdCorps entire loss of 4,198 was sustained on thesecond of July, and also the Fifth Corps entire lossof 2,186, to the sum of which we add half the entireloss of the Second Corps, which cannot be far froma correct estimate, and it brings the aggregate lossof the Union army on July second up to about 9,000,wliich is more than forty per cent in excess of Long-streets loss as he estimates it. But whatever the battle losses of the second ofJuly may have been, it was the decisive battle ofthe series, and bloody enough to satisfy any votaryof war and carn
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