. Gettysburg, the pivotal battle of the Civil War . E. P. ALEXANDER Chief of ArtiUery, 1st Corps, Army Northern Virf/hiia. HENRY J. Ill NT Chief of Artillcr!/, Ainiij of the Potoitidc GETTYSBURG Then the signal gun sounded, and the silencewhich for two hours or more had brooded over thefield was broken by the Washington Artillery ofNew Orleans, which was posted in the edge of thewoods on Seminary Ridge, nearly opposite theUnion left-centre, and then the whole ridge up anddown for the distance of a mile and a half lightedup with one continuous blaze, as gun after gun andb
. Gettysburg, the pivotal battle of the Civil War . E. P. ALEXANDER Chief of ArtiUery, 1st Corps, Army Northern Virf/hiia. HENRY J. Ill NT Chief of Artillcr!/, Ainiij of the Potoitidc GETTYSBURG Then the signal gun sounded, and the silencewhich for two hours or more had brooded over thefield was broken by the Washington Artillery ofNew Orleans, which was posted in the edge of thewoods on Seminary Ridge, nearly opposite theUnion left-centre, and then the whole ridge up anddown for the distance of a mile and a half lightedup with one continuous blaze, as gun after gun andbattery after battery opened their ponderousthroats, belching forth fire and messengers of deathand destruction. It was a grand and awful demonstration of mili-ta ^ buncombe; useless, foolish, and costly on thepa of and for the general that planned and orderedit, but it demonstrated one fact beyond all ques-tion, which is, that Lee was not so weak in men andmaterial, and the Confederacy was not so destituteof the sinews of war, as their historians and friends,both South and North, would have the worldbelieve. Lee was a long way
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