item: #1 of 4 id: 20762 author: Doubleday, Abner title: Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI date: None words: 70368 flesch: 64 summary: 1st Louisiana, Colonel William R. Shirers 2d Louisiana, Colonel J. M. Williams 10th Louisiana, Colonel E. Waggaman 14th Louisiana, Colonel Z. York 15th Louisiana, Colonel Edward Pendleton ARTILLERY OF THE SECOND CORPS. General Noble, at that time Colonel of the Seventeenth Connecticut Infantry, two companies of whose regiment were on the picket line there, writes as follows: keywords: 1st; advance; army; artillery; attack; batteries; battery; battle; brigade; captain; cavalry; chancellorsville; charge; colonel; command; corps; day; division; eleventh; enemy; field; fire; flank; force; forward; general; gettysburg; guns; hill; hooker; howard; jackson; john; lee; left; lieut.-colonel; lieutenant; line; longstreet; major; meade; men; new; new york; north; orders; pennsylvania; position; rear; rebel; regiments; retreat; ridge; right; road; second; sedgwick; sickles; south; states; stuart; time; troops; union; virginia; way; west; wounded; york cache: 20762.txt plain text: 20762.txt item: #2 of 4 id: 33121 author: Haskell, Franklin Aretas title: The Battle of Gettysburg date: None words: 40607 flesch: 71 summary: More than half a mile their front extends; more than a thousand yards the dull gray masses deploy, man touching man, rank pressing rank, and line supporting line. It was magnificent to see those ten or twelve thousand men--they were good men--with their batteries, and some squadrons of cavalry upon the left flank, all in battle order, in several lines, with flags streaming, sweep steadily down the slope, across the valley, and up the next ascent, toward their destined position! keywords: army; attack; batteries; battle; corps; crest; day; dead; division; enemy; field; fire; general; gettysburg; gibbon; ground; guns; hancock; infantry; july; left; line; little; man; meade; men; morning; order; position; rear; rebel; right; second; time; troops cache: 33121.txt plain text: 33121.txt item: #3 of 4 id: 33585 author: Philadelphia Brigade Association title: Reply of the Philadelphia Brigade Association to the Foolish and Absurd Narrative of Lieutenant Frank A. Haskell date: None words: 12917 flesch: 62 summary: The total number of officers and men present for duty of the Philadelphia Brigade, at the Battle of Gettysburg, was 1,573, and the total loss was 491, given in detail, as to regiments in the annexed tables: NUMBER PRESENT FOR DUTY +---------------+----------+------+-------+ | REGIMENTS | OFFICERS | MEN | TOTAL | +---------------+----------+------+-------+ | General Staff | 4 | -- | 4 | | 69th | 22 | 312 | 344 | | 71st | 27 | 366 | 393 | | 72nd | 26 | 447 | 473 | | 106th | 30 | 313 | 343 | | Brigade Band | -- | 16 | 16 | +---------------+----------+------+-------+ | Totals | 119 | 1454 | 1573 | +---------------+----------+------+-------+ LOSS OF PHILADELPHIA BRIGADE AND SECOND CORPS AT GETTYSBURG. In meeting and repulsing the charge of Pickett's Division at the Bloody Angle of Gettysburg, the High Water Mark of the Civil War, the Philadelphia Brigade gained imperishable fame that will live in history as long as our country will exist as a nation, and that renown is so irrevocably fixed in the annals of the War that it can never be impaired while time itself shall last. keywords: battle; brigade; commission; corps; general; gettysburg; haskell; history; legion; loyal; men; philadelphia; philadelphia brigade; second; wisconsin; | | cache: 33585.txt plain text: 33585.txt item: #4 of 4 id: 55627 author: Singmaster, Elsie title: Emmeline date: None words: 18504 flesch: 89 summary: At last Emmeline had to lead him to the roadside. I am Emmeline Willing, said she, with dignity. keywords: battle; bertha; christy; emmeline; gettysburg; grandmother; henry; home; house; men; mother; mrs; private; schmidt; soldiers; sound; willing cache: 55627.txt plain text: 55627.txt