Battle of Gettysburg, Thursday Evening, July 2d, 1863, as seen from Rocky Hill, on Meades Left
| Description: |
From the book: Our illustration shows the fight on Thursday evening, July 2d, 1863, and we almost may say on Friday evening, from Rocky Hill, on the left of General Meades position, where the Fifth Corps was posted. The lines of the enemy can be seen coming over the hill and out of the woods, in their fierce onset on the Federal line in the rocky field. The fire that met the Confederates at the foot of the ridge was so hot that the entire line of the now fairly exhausted Confederates for a moment wavered and then recoiled. Seeing this, Meade ordered a general advance, in which the remainder of Doubledays force participated. After another spirited contest it succeeded just before sunset in driving back the Confederates nearly up to their line of reserves, and in taking some of the guns that had been previously captured. Thus ended the engagement on the left centre. A new line was then formed with the divisions of Doubleday and Robinson, and by part of the Twelfth Corps, then under General Williams, who had taken Slocums place when the latter assumed command of the entire right wing. Contrary to Lees expectation, Ewell on the extreme left did not advance until quite awhile after Longstreet had attached Birneys division. Johnsons force crossed Rock Creek, and with its extreme right moved against Wadsworth and Greene, the latter being the only brigade of Gearys division left at Culps Hill. Gearys other brigades, under Colonel Charles Candy and George Cobham, had previously been ordered away by Meade toward Little Round Top. |
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| Origin: | 1863 |
| Publisher: |
New York : Mrs. Frank Leslie, c1895 |
| Source: |
http://images.indianahistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/dc008/id/1052 |
| Collection: |
Civil War Materials |
| Copyright: |
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| Geography: |
Pennsylvania--Gettysburg |
| Subjects: |
Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 United States History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns United States History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works Soldiers Battlefields Military campaigns Gettysburg, (Pa.) Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 |
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