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Show i r : t A, .. . ;rw V"-I . . -. v K?' ' , j - -, - - '''S -v-ici- ivV , p mxm lj Explosion of an ammunition cataaon during tha Cattle of Gatuburg, br which a number at aoldiera of the Twenty-eighth Infantry were killed. columns, move dsteadtly across open fields which were swept by such a storra of shrapnel and rtflla fire as had never before been seen, and though they fell like grain before the reapers, reap-ers, some of them reaching the Union lines, only to be speedily overcome. That ended the mighty battle, and there was nothing left far Lea to do but get back Into Virginia. Gettysburg cost the Union army the lives of a number of generals, and the loss of nearly 24,000 men. On the Confederate side five generals were killed and nearly 30,000 men killed or wounded. HIGH IIDEJF MR BATTLE "OF GETTYSBURG WAS TURNING POINT OF GREAT CIVIL CONFLICT. BOTH SIDES FOUGHT BRAVELY Three Days of Flghtlnn Thst Resulted In Total Losses of Cver 60,000. aid Put Confedsrate Forcss on the Defensive. Bravely fought by two great armies of Americans, bravely won by the Fed-erala Fed-erala and bravely lost by tie Confederates Confed-erates the battle of Gettysburg proved to be the turning point of tha Civil war. Before that the victories of the south wire frequent and Its armies were aggressive. After the bloody battle of July 1, 2 and 3, 1863, the forces of the Confederacy were generally gen-erally on tha defensive. Lee's Invasion Inva-sion of tba north, undertaken In the hops that It would bring foreign aid lo the aouthern cause, was brought to a sudden and disastrous end. General Lees army at Gettysburg numbered approximately 84.000, while the Federal (orcea, under command of Gen. George G. Meade, aggregated about ku.ooo officera and men. Lees corps commanders were Generals Longstreet Ewell and A. P. Hill. Com-manders Com-manders of the Union corpa wire Generals Gen-erals John V. Reynolds, W. 8. Hancock. Han-cock. D. E. Sickles. Sykes, Sedgwick, O. O. Howard and 8 locum. Reynolds, sent ahead to feel out the enemy, arrived. at Gettysburg the evs-nlng evs-nlng of June 31, and in the fighting which began aariy the next day, was killed. Gen. Abner Doubleday, who succeeded him, waa forced back to Seminary Ridge, after hard fighting, and then had to abandon that position, posi-tion, .so that ths first day of the battle bat-tle was in reality a Confederate victory. vic-tory. That night Meade ordered the nutlre Union army to Gettysburg, and by next morning the two armies were confronting each other along a tea-mile tea-mile line of battle. Irfe ordered Longstreet to turn the left flank of the Federal army by taking tak-ing Little Round Top, but Sickles defended de-fended that position so stubbornly that lxingstreet's movement was checked, Peaxh Orchard, Cemetery Hill. Culpa Hill and The Devil s Den were the scenes of desperate fighting, uid Liule Round Top was saved to Lhs Federals by ths arrival of a biig-ide biig-ide under General Weed. His men Jraggcd the guns of a battery to the lummlt by hand. i The third day opened with a won- J lertul artillery duel, the greatest of i Lhe entire war, and then came Pick- j Kt'a charge, which has gone Into hla , lory as one of ths most heroic as-isulu as-isulu of all time. The men of Pickett'a division formed In brigade i JU6 7(CMiyvZl jfiZZZer- titer T" - , ae4e . - .V- '-?'"' a.,.". mn m Seu.)'-v3 . This picture shows a view from Liule Round Top. looking over ths theat field where ths second day's battle fiercely aurged. |