. Gettysburg, the pivotal battle of the Civil War . (I. K. WARREN Cliicf-Eiu/inccr, Aniii/ of the PoUjiikk. GETTYSBURG rens ears caught the sound of marching troops, andthe vanguard of the Fifth Corps, so anxiously lookedfor by Meade and Hancock, appeared on theTaneytown Road not four hundred yards in rear ofthe threatened position. Never in the history of war was arrival moretimely. The advent of Bluchers army on the fieldof Waterloo was not more opportune to theexhausted English than was Sykes corps to Warrenand the exhausted troops of Hancock and further delay of half an
. Gettysburg, the pivotal battle of the Civil War . (I. K. WARREN Cliicf-Eiu/inccr, Aniii/ of the PoUjiikk. GETTYSBURG rens ears caught the sound of marching troops, andthe vanguard of the Fifth Corps, so anxiously lookedfor by Meade and Hancock, appeared on theTaneytown Road not four hundred yards in rear ofthe threatened position. Never in the history of war was arrival moretimely. The advent of Bluchers army on the fieldof Waterloo was not more opportune to theexhausted English than was Sykes corps to Warrenand the exhausted troops of Hancock and further delay of half an hour for any cause, andSykes would have found Little Round Top inLaws possession, and Cemetery Ridge occupied byLongstreet and his Confederates. The Army ofthe Potomac would have been split into two frag-ments, the Fifth and Sixth Corps out of the battle,and Lee master of the situation. Had Longstreet begun his battle two hoursearlier, — at two rather than at four oclock, — itwould have been over before Sykes arrival, and theBattle of Gettysburg would have been counted asthe most terrible defeat of the Union
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