. Knapsack and rifle; or, Life in the Grand Army; war as seen from the ranks. Pen pictures and sketches of camp, bivouac, marches, battle-fields and battles, commanders, great military movements, personal reminiscences and narratives of army life ... Also, a complete chronology of the war, and a digest of the pension laws of the United States .. . ^ charge as this, was to makethe assault, and if possible, rout oursturdy forces. His men were notaccustomed to defeat or formed the picked division ofGEN. LOiflGSTREET. the Confederate army. They wereto General Lee what the OldGuard was
. Knapsack and rifle; or, Life in the Grand Army; war as seen from the ranks. Pen pictures and sketches of camp, bivouac, marches, battle-fields and battles, commanders, great military movements, personal reminiscences and narratives of army life ... Also, a complete chronology of the war, and a digest of the pension laws of the United States .. . ^ charge as this, was to makethe assault, and if possible, rout oursturdy forces. His men were notaccustomed to defeat or formed the picked division ofGEN. LOiflGSTREET. the Confederate army. They wereto General Lee what the OldGuard was to ]Napoleon, men for a crisis, who couldcarry the flag wherever it was possible for human valorto win. They were proud of Virginia, the State fromwhich they were recruited, and never did men of bettermetal go into a fight. The attack was made on our centre on Cemetery supposed the silence of our batteries indicated that. KNAPSACK AND RIFLE. 239 they had been disabled by his own guns, and at once thecommand was given to charge. There was something magnificently grand in this last,desperate efibrt to carry the day. Thirteen thousandgleaming bayonets flashed from the advancing was a forest of steel, and the reflection of the lightadded splendor to the scene. Picketts gallant troops,flushed with past victories, were supported by the finedivisions of Wilcox and Pettigrew, and the whole plan ofattack, both as to the men selected and the attemptedexecution, gave evidence of the highest military genius. Across a field for a distance of some thirteen hundredyards the Confederate column had to advance. Suddenlythe Federal batteries on Cemetery Pidge were endowedwith new life. Step by step, with a proud military bearingand an enthusiasm that showed itself in every motion,the foe pressed on. It was a charge into the jaws ofdestruction and death. Our infantry remained quiet inposition, calmly awaiting th
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