Gettysburg (94 page)

181 “heavy firing”/“’Come quite up to Gettysburg’”: Hall Letter.

181 Howard quotations/exchange with Meysenburg: Howard,
Autobiography
, 409-10.

181 “nearly at the extreme advance”/“told me to inform you”: Hall Letter.

182 “‘Tell General Sickles I think”: Tremain, “Two Days,” 14.

182 “I … received instructions to hurry forward”: Halstead, “First Day,” 4.

182 “‘Tell Doubleday’”: Doubleday,
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
, 130.

182 “to charge as fast as they arrived”: Rosengarten, “Admiral and General Reynolds,” 629.

183 “You have not a second”/“form his regiment”/“in his immediate front”:
Missouri Republican
, December 4, 1886.

184 “We were immediately thrown”: Wheeler Letters (SHSWI).

184 “cut down 30 per cent”: Hughes Journal (SHSWI).

184 “officers and men fell killed”: Fairchild Papers (SHSWI).

184 “We held our fire”: Stevens, ed.,
As If It Were Glory
, 72.

184 “‘Forward men, forward’”/“a Minnie ball struck him”: Veil Letter (PHMC).

185 “there were 20,000 Yanks”: Boland, “Beginning,” 308.

185 “the feet and legs”: Turney, “First Tennessee,” 308.

186 “Come back with that flag!”: Marsh Papers (ISL).

186 “We went down at them”: Ladd, ed.,
Bachelder Papers
, 2:937.

187 “Could see the fighting”: Fahnestock, “Recollections” (ACHS).

187 “awe-inspiring scene”/“that all the family”: Clare, “A Gettysburg Girl’s” (ACHS).

187 “a large hotel”:
National Tribune
, August 13, 1885.

187 Skelly quotations: Skelly,
Boy’s Experiences
, 12.

188 Howard material: Howard,
Autobiography
, 412-13.

188 “‘General Doubleday is now in command’”:
Milwaukee (Sunday) Telegraph
, April 22, 1888.

188 “great responsibilities”: Doubleday,
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
, 132.

190 “It was a hot place”:
National Tribune
, November 1, 1888.

190 “The scourge of lead”:
National Tribune
, July 15, 1915.

190 “The fighting was at very short range”: Fox, ed.,
New York at Gettysburg
, 3:1001.

190 “ordered the battery”:
OR
, 27/1: 359.

190 “In retreat, double quick, run”: Fox,
New York at Gettysburg
, 3:1002.

190 “We was ordered to retreat”: Snyder,
Oswego County
, 63.

191 “to lose no time”:
OR
, 27/1: 359.

191 “to fall back to the town”: Ladd, ed.,
Bachelder Papers
, 1: 205.

191 “I went, and very soon”: Quoted in Kross, “Attack from the West,” 19.

192 “Is it confessing weakness?”/“’God helping us’”: Howard,
Autobiography
, 413.

192 “The sound [of firing coming]”: Long,
Memoirs
, 275.

192 “to ascertain what force”: Taylor,
Four Years
, 92-93.

192 “‘I cannot think’”: Longstreet,
From Manassas
, 357.

192 “‘General Doubleday’”/“’Go like hell’”: Ladd, ed.,
Bachelder Papers
, 1: 323.

193 “The guns of Hall’s battery”:
Milwaukee (Sunday) Telegraph
, April 27, 1890.

193 “flying before the enemy”: Fairfield Diaries (SHSWI).

193 “parallel to the turnpike”:
Milwaukee (Sunday) Telegraph
, April 27, 1890.

194 “‘I am all right’”/“‘Fire by file’”:
Milwaukee (Sunday) Telegraph
, April 27, 1890.

194 “the enemy discovered us coming”:
Milwaukee (Sunday) Telegraph
, March 22, 1885.

194 “all the men”:
OR
, 27/1: 275-76.

194 “they opened a tremendous fire”:
Milwaukee (Sunday) Telegraph
, December 20, 1884.

194 Dawes-Pye exchange: Ladd, ed.,
Bachelder Papers
, 1:324.

195 “Men were being shot by twenties”:
Milwaukee (Sunday) Telegraph
, April 27, 1890.

195 “seemed to be trying to see”:
Milwaukee (Sunday) Telegraph
, July 28, 1883.

195 “V-shaped crowd of men”:
Milwaukee (Sunday) Telegraph
, April 27, 1890.

195 “The volley had been so fatal”: Fairchild Papers (SHSWI).

195 “The men [were] black and grimy”: Rogers Letter (SHSWI).

195 Dawes-Blair exchange: Dawes,
Service with the 6th Wisconsin
, 169.

196 “This success … enabled us”: Doubleday,
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
, 133.

197 Weld-Meade exchange: Weld,
War Diary
, 230; Meade,
Life and Letters
, 36.

198 “to hurry my command”/“’Hard times’”/“First and Third Divisions”: Schurz,
Reminiscences
, 5-7.

198 “‘We must hold’”: Howard, “First Day,” 249.

198 “By keeping along the wooded ridge”:
OR
, 27/2: 552.

198 “would be a weak reed”: Nevins, ed.,
Diary of Battle
, 233.

200 “directed … to station his division”:
OR
, 27/1: 247.

201 “I was not aware”: Doubleday,
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
, 134;
CCW
, 307.

201 “enemy had now been felt”/“that it might collect”:
OR
, 27/2: 638.

202 “This was the first intimation”: Heth, “Letter to Jones,” 158.

203 “How shall I describe”:
Star and Sentinel
, July 2, 1913.

203 “warning all women”:
Philadelphia Weekly Times
, March 29, 1884.

203 “to go into the side streets”: McCurdy,
Gettysburg
, 16-17.

203 “a bell-crowned hat”: Quoted in Martin,
Gettysburg July 1
, 373.

205 “that Hill had blundered”: Blackford Memoir (MHI).

205 “It was too late”:
OR
, 27/2: 444.

205 “panting and out of breath”: Fox, ed.,
New York at Gettysburg
, 1:378.

205 “much fatigued with a rapid march”: Applegate, ed.,
Reminiscences
, 211.

206 “to fall back without orders”:
OR
, 27/1: 246.

206 “first indication I had”: Doubleday,
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
, 139.

206 “‘You stand alone’”: Thomas,
Boys in Blue
, 148.

207 “The moment I received”:
CCW
, 330.

207 “in case of the truth of General Reynolds’s death”: Meade,
Life and Letters
, 64.

207 “It was impossible for Meade”: Pennypacker,
General Meade
, 149.

207 “understood and could carry out”:
CCW
, 348.

208 “one of the bravest”: Howard, “First Day,” 254.

208 “its cannoniers bouncing”/“The first shot”: Applegate, ed.,
Reminiscences
, 211-12.

209 “It seemed like some grand panorama”: Hoole, ed.,
Reminiscences
, 7.

209 “the whole of that portion”/“that the Enemy was rash enough”:
OR
, 27/2: 553.

211 “when we were in point blank range”: Clark, ed.,
Histories
, 2: 235.

211 “sprayed by the brains”: Quoted in Kross, “That One Error,” 50.

211 “staggered, halted, and was swept”:
National Tribune
, June 26, 1884.

211 “I believe every man”: Clark, ed.,
Histories
, 2: 119.

212 “and became unfit for further command”: Quoted in Martin,
Gettysburg July 1
, 238.

212 Brown quotations: Brown Papers (TSL).

212 Heth-Lee exchange: Heth, “Letter to Jones,” 158.

213 “It would of course”: Doubleday,
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
, 139.

214 “We were wet as cats”: Quoted in Pula,
Sigel Regiment
, 161.

214 “The fate of the nation”: Pula, ed.,
Memoirs
, 36.

215 “had a few words with Wadsworth”: Howard,
Autobiography
, 414.

215 “gave orders, in case I was forced”: Doubleday,
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
, 141.

215 “feeling exceedingly anxious”: Howard,
Autobiography
, 414.

215 “there are enough soldiers here”: McCreary, “Gettysburg.”

215 “They kept the pace”: Jacobs, “How an Eye-Witness.”

215 “there was no time to drink”: Quoted in Bennett,
Days of
“
Uncertainty and Dread
,” 28.

215 “I didn’t know what in the world”:
Philadelphia Inquirer
, June 26, 1930.

216 “Maj. Venable of Jeb Stuart’s staff”: Brown Papers (TSL).

216 “some were shot”: Ladd, ed.,
Bachelder Papers
, 2: 830.

217 “always been down on the ‘Dutch’”/“miserable creatures”: Barlow Papers.

217 “shoot down stragglers”: Butts, ed.,
Gallant Captain
, 79.

218 “still thinner a line already too thin”: Schurz,
Reminiscences
, 9.

218 “I … formed my line”:
OR
, 27/2: 468.

218 “I saw the enemy”: Schurz,
Reminiscences
, 9.

219 “I received a dispatch”:
OR
, 27/2: 697.

219 “General Wadsworth reported half his men”: Doubleday,
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
, 146.

220 “were withdrawing troops”/“’Wait a while’”: Morrison, ed.,
Memoirs
, 175.

221 Sickles communications:
OR
, 27/3: 464.

221 “The people all along the road”: Quaife, ed.,
From the Cannon’s Mouth
, 224.

222 “As we had heard that Buford”/“that the action was more serious”: Ladd, ed.,
Bachelder Papers
, 1:290.

222 “My orders were to march”: Cooke, “First Day,” 286.

223 “We advanced with our accustomed yell”: Nichols,
Soldier’s Story
, 116.

224 “Everybody was then running”: Barlow Papers.

224 Lane-Burgwyn exchange: Quoted in Gragg,
Covered with Glory
, 97-98.

225 “the whole [Rebel] army in our front”: Dudley,
Iron Brigade
, 11.

225 “when he was shot”: Hodnett Family Collection (Duke).

225 “The Yankees … fought”: William S. Evans, “Letter.”

225 “I thought we would have to use the bayonet”: Shivers, “An Account.”

225 “There was no alternative”: Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 151.

225 “So the horrible, screaming”:
National Tribune
, August 19, 1897.

225 “The troops taking part”: Pula, ed.,
Memoirs
, 37.

226 “stepped off”: Clark, ed.,
Histories
, 2: 351.

226 “advanced in two lines”:
OR
, 27/1: 268.

226 “Their bearing was magnificent”: Otis,
Second Wisconsin
, 277.

228 “total annihilation stared”:
Winchester Journal
, July 13, 1863.

228 “deadly missiles [that] were sent”:
Lenoir News Topic
, April 8, 1896.

228 “The Yanks took advantage of that”: Dorsett, “Fourteenth Color-Bearer,” 5.

228 “no Rebel crossed the stream”: Gaff,
On Many a Bloody Field
, 260.

228 “with recklessness upon our walls”: Otis,
Second Wisconsin
, 85.

228 “The slaughter in our ranks”: Orr Family Papers (ISL).

229 “The men were falling rapidly”: Applegate, ed.,
Reminiscences
, 211.

229 “Their officers were cheering”/“We drove them”: Nichols,
Soldier’s Story
, 116.

229 “whole division was falling back”:
OR
, 27/1: 712.

230 “far down the line”: Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 153.

230 “The struggle grows hotter”: Clark, ed.,
Histories
, 2: 106.

231 “Lots of men near me”: Dorsett, “Fourteenth Color-Bearer,” 5.

231 “Go and get it”/“Go to hell”:
Richmond Palladium
, September 11, 1863.

231 “[The] men had difficulty”: Clark, ed.,
Histories
, 3: 84.

231 “Although they knew it was certain death”:
Charlotte Observer
, December 22, 1895.

231 “covered itself with glory”: Burgwyn Papers
(NCDHA).

231 “‘Dress on the colors’”: Quoted in Gragg,
Covered with Glory
, 129.

232 “the first sight I had”:
National Tribune
, April 13, 1899.

232 “coolly waited until they saw”: Nicholson, ed.,
Pennsylvania at Gettysburg
, 2: 762.

233 “‘Adjutant, it is all damned cowardice’”: Chamberlin,
History of the 150th Pennsylvania
, 134.

233 “fought for some time”/“turning round every now and then”: Fremantle,
Three Months
, 204.

234 “set a corporal’s guard”/“Hold at any cost”: Small, ed.,
Road to Richmond
, 101.

235 “They swarmed down upon us”:
Maine at Gettysburg
, 47.

235 “every man commenced”: Bisbee, “Three Years,” 9.

236 “I feared the consequences”: Howard,
Autobiography
, 416.

236 “What was left of the First Corps”: Doubleday,
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
, 147.

236 “I thought it was the
Seminary
Hill”: Nevins, ed.,
Diary of Battle
, 235.

237 “pass Genl Heth’s division”:
OR
, 27/2: 657.

237 “did not halt”/“would all be killed”: Littlejohn, “Recollections.”

237 “could scarcely raise”: Bonham, “A Little More Light,” 521.

237 “The field was thick”: Caldwell,
History of … “McGowan’s Brigade,”
138.

237 “lying down”: Ladd, ed.,
Bachelder Papers
, 3: 1697.

237 “His round shot”: Nevins, ed.,
Diary of Battle
, 235-36.

239 “Every discharge made sad loss”: Clark, ed.,
Histories
, 2: 693.

239 “The rebels came half-way”: Dawes,
Service with the 6th Wisconsin
, 175.