. Book of the Royal blue . w and untried com-mander, General Meade, who, three daysbefore the battle had superseded GeneralHooker (by directions from Washington),and had two new corps commanders, Sykesand Newton, while the Confederate armyhad their able and accomplished Longstreet,as well as the competent A. P. Hill and therenowned Evvell in command of their threecorps. Excluding the ground of the greatcavalry fight between (jregg and Stuartwith their 10,000 sabres on the afternoonof July 3, on the Rommell farm three mileseast of Gettysburg, where, for hours, theseskillful generals fought for
. Book of the Royal blue . w and untried com-mander, General Meade, who, three daysbefore the battle had superseded GeneralHooker (by directions from Washington),and had two new corps commanders, Sykesand Newton, while the Confederate armyhad their able and accomplished Longstreet,as well as the competent A. P. Hill and therenowned Evvell in command of their threecorps. Excluding the ground of the greatcavalry fight between (jregg and Stuartwith their 10,000 sabres on the afternoonof July 3, on the Rommell farm three mileseast of Gettysburg, where, for hours, theseskillful generals fought for possession ofthe field in the immediate rear of the Unionarmy, the area of the battlefield was abouttwenty square miles, partly shown on theRelief ilap accompanying this intention had been to have Stuartscavalry strike the Union line from the rearthe same moment Pickett was carrying theline in the front. The first skirmish in ornear (lettysburg occurred on June 27, whena part of Earlys command, on their way to. •DEVILS DEN. THE PECILIAH KoUMATlONS OK HEAVY BOILDEKS AT UETTYSBUlUi. GETTYSBURG. the Susquehanna, drove the 2Gth Pennsyl-vania Emergency Regiment out of theborough. On June 30, Bufords cavalrymen, recon-noitering out on the Cashtown road (one ofthe seven prominent roads which convergeat Gettysburg), ran into some of Petti-grews infantry, and in the evening of thatday, Colonel Gamble stationed his picketsalong Marsh Creek. Early in the morning July 1, and he himself hurried forward thefew miles to meet < General Buford. Togetherthey rode out the Cashtown Pike, and wheretheir two grand monuments now stand, nearthe McPherson farm, a conference was heldabout nine a. m. As a result, Reynoldshurried back to his advancing troops tospur them forward, and as he was leadingthe foremost regiment into the woods hewas struck in the head by a bullet and died
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