. Book of the Royal blue . Reynolds repulsed them, butlost his own life. Howard came up andtook command, extending the line to includeCemetery Hill and Culp Hill. A part of hisforces were sent out to check Ewells ad-vance, but were driven back through thetown to Cemetery Hill. This was the endof the first days fighting. The various corps of the Union army,hastening to the front, were assigned posi-tions along Cemetery Hill, Peach Orchard,Devils Den and the Round Tops. The sec-ond days fighting did not begin until fouroclock in the afternoon. Longstreet dis-lodged the Federals from Peach Orchar
. Book of the Royal blue . Reynolds repulsed them, butlost his own life. Howard came up andtook command, extending the line to includeCemetery Hill and Culp Hill. A part of hisforces were sent out to check Ewells ad-vance, but were driven back through thetown to Cemetery Hill. This was the endof the first days fighting. The various corps of the Union army,hastening to the front, were assigned posi-tions along Cemetery Hill, Peach Orchard,Devils Den and the Round Tops. The sec-ond days fighting did not begin until fouroclock in the afternoon. Longstreet dis-lodged the Federals from Peach Orchardand Ewell gained a foothold on Culp night fell Lee believed that he hadeffected a breach in both branches ofthe Army of the Potomac. But at day-light Meade attacked Ewell in force, andwrenched from him the ground commandingCulp Hill. Finding that he had failed toeffect a permanent lodgment on eitherflank of the Federals, Lees next attemptwas to break their center, on CemeteryHill. Massing 140 guns along Seminary. PICKETTS CHARGE, GETTYSBURG. 18 FAMOUS hattlffields of the civil war, revisited. Ridge, he opened fire, and was briskly an-swered from the other side. The artillery duel lasted until threeoclock, when Lee launched General Pickett with a column of 15,000 men to drive awedge into the center of the Union across the valley, in the face ofmurderous volleys which decimated hisranks and demoralized one of his divisions,Pickett actually ruptured Hancocks lineand penetrated with a few of his troopssome distance heyond, hut met an array infront and flank which rolled him hack withfearful loss. The battle was decided forthe Union. Lee, with his rear carefullyguarded, began that night his retreatthrough Maryland to the Potomac. Meadewould adventure nothing. Satisfied withthe credit of defeating his enemy he lostthe chance of destroying him. The Gettysburg battlefield is not nowthe wilderness it was on those fateful daysin duly, 1863. A national cemetery, de
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