. Gettysburg, the pivotal battle of the Civil War . . ABNER DOUBLE DAYCom. 1st Corps, July 1. .A[ CARL SCHURZ Com. 11th Corpse. Jiilii 1 GETTYSBURG a good soldier, and the army and the country neededhis services; but it is one of the facts of history thatwe lost in prisoners taken by the enemy that firstday of July from the First and Eleventh Corps,about 2,500 men, most of them captured on thatretreat and in the city, after General Doubleday hadridden through and out of it. The boys said afterwards that they got tangledup in the names of the brigade commanders ofSchurzs third
. Gettysburg, the pivotal battle of the Civil War . . ABNER DOUBLE DAYCom. 1st Corps, July 1. .A[ CARL SCHURZ Com. 11th Corpse. Jiilii 1 GETTYSBURG a good soldier, and the army and the country neededhis services; but it is one of the facts of history thatwe lost in prisoners taken by the enemy that firstday of July from the First and Eleventh Corps,about 2,500 men, most of them captured on thatretreat and in the city, after General Doubleday hadridden through and out of it. The boys said afterwards that they got tangledup in the names of the brigade commanders ofSchurzs third division of the Eleventh Corps,General Von Schimmelfennig and Colonel Krz-yzanowski. These officers were from the Vaterland,or from some other foreign country, and they hadbrought their own names with them. As GeneralVon Schimmelfennig commanded the third divi-sion when Schurz took command of the EleventhCorps, there really was some cause for the entangle-ment in the streets of Gettysburg in addition toEarlys flank movement; and the soldiers will havetheir jokes. We were surely greatly hurried and
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