Gettysburg: The Story of the Battle with Maps (Sample) by The Editors of Stackpole Books

Author:The Editors of Stackpole Books
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2013-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

July 2, Evening

Barksdale’s storming Mississippians are charging into the artillery fire that was shelling them during their unnerving wait. They knock aside skirmishers sent to slow them. Loading and firing as they go, they swipe aside the brave 114th Pennsylvania Zouaves in their fezes and russet baggy pants. They chase the Union cannons off their west-facing position at the road, hurling Graham’s Brigade back off Humphreys’s left, and, their blood up, are game for more.

Ewell ends his artillery “demonstration.” More numerous and better positioned Yankee batteries have turned the Confederate position on Benner’s Hill into a “hell infernal.”

Little Round Top continues hotly contested.

On the heels of Barksdale’s attack, Wofford’s Brigade has jumped off and is swinging below Barksdale’s unbrookable advance to press toward Rose Woods . . .

Barksdale splits his brigade. Part surges up the Emmitsburg Road, collapsing Humphreys’s left; part thrusts east toward Plum Run and Cemetery Ridge: MEADE’s main line. The Yankee gun line between the Peach Orchard and the Wheatfield is falling like dominoes as Barksdale approaches.

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