but the men dragged the gun to the rear. The other pieces, one by one, are sent to the rear, except the last, which Hall is obliged to leave, the Confederates shooting all the horses.

The Fourteenth and Ninety-fifth New York are by McPherson's house, facing west, but they fall back, change front and face north, having no intention of abandoning their position. The Sixth Wisconsin, belonging to Meredith's brigade, is in their rear towards the seminary. Doubleday sends it north, and it comes in on the right of the other two regiments. The Mississippians also change front and run into the railroad exca

vation.

Colonel Fowler, of the Fourteenth New York, had been placed in command of three regiments by General Doubleday. The regiments are by the turnpike fence; a sheet of flame bursts from their muskets. The Union men tear down the fence and rush towards the excavation. Men drop, but others go on. Adjutant Brooks and a portion of the Sixth Wis

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consin rush to the eastern end of the excavation, and fire a volley through the cut upon the Mississippians, who find themselves in a trap, with a fire rained upon them and the eastern end closed. They throw down their guns and surrender, while the remainder of Davis's brigade retreats to Willoughby Run. At this moment Wadsworth, who has retired with the other regiments towards Gettysburg, is coming back to re-establish his line.(1)

This the contest of the morning, in which the advantage has been on the side of the In the charge the Ninety-seventh New York lost one hundred and sixty men.

Union troops.

It was nearly eleven o'clock, and for a time there was a lull-the calmness which precedes a fiercer contest-the period of preparation.

Looking down the Emmettsburg road we see the other two divisions of the First Corps-Rowley's and Robinson's - with the artillery, turning from the road near the house of Mr. Codori, and moving towards the seminary. Not far behind them is General Howard and his staff, who see the battle-cloud rising above the green foliage. The general turns to the right, rides to the cemetery, where the white marble head-stones crown the apex of the hill east of the town, and sweeps the landscape with his glass, noting how commanding the situation. To his right, not far away, is Culp's Hill. In the east, down the Baltimore pike, is Wolf's Hill. Can

non planted in the cemetery and north of it can be made to sweep a large portion of the circle.

"This seems to be a good position, colonel," he remarked to Colonel Mysenburg.(")

It is no reflection upon Bu-
Buford was ordered to hold

"It is the only position," was the reply. The topographical advantages were plain. ford or Reynolds that they did not select it. the town. He bivouacked in the proper place to carry out his orders, and was attacked while there, and Reynolds came to his support. There had been no selection of a place.

The view is from the west, looking towards the position occupied by the Union troops. The Chambersburg turnpike is at the right, and the Union troops charged across the field from the turnpike to the railroad. Cemetery Hill, east of Gettysburg, is seen in the far distance along the railroad track.

General Howard rode through the town. Leaving his horse he climbed a stair-way to the observatory of Pennsylvania College, spread out his map and examined it. An officer came galloping down the street with the sad and disheartening information that General Reynolds was wounded. Soon he was informed that Reynolds was dead, and that the command devolved upon him. In a moment he was invested with the command of the right wing of the army, with the responsibility of conducting a battle already begun.

For the remainder of the day General Doubleday commanded the First Corps, and General Schurz the Eleventh.

At eleven o'clock Doubleday was placing Rowley and Robinson in position on Seminary Ridge. Barlow's division of the Eleventh Corps was still far down the Emmettsburg road-its way blocked by the wagons of the First Corps. Steinwehr's and Schurz's divisions were nearer, approaching by the Taneytown road.

General Howard directed Steinwehr to take possession of Cemetery Hill, while Schurz passed through the town and marched north-east along the road to Mummasburg, deploying in the fields.

Leaving the scenes of Gettysburg for the moment and going over the Chambersburg turnpike, we find General Lee at Cashtown. He has been riding with General Longstreet. They have heard the cannonade, and General Lee hastens over the hills and reaches General Anderson, who is at Cashtown. The firing is deep and heavy from the Confederate batteries at Herr's Tavern and Hall's Second Maine Battery. They can hear the rolls of musketry.(1) General Lee is depressed in spirits. These his words: "I cannot think what has become of Stuart. I ought to have heard from him long before now. He may have met with disaster, but I hope not. In the absence of reports from him I am in ignorance as to

may

what we have in front of us here. It be the whole Federal army, or it may be only a detachment. If it is the whole Federal force, we must fight a battle here. If we do not gain a victory, those defiles and gorges through which we passed this morning will shelter us from disaster." He rides on towards the scene of conflict.

It was General Howard's intention to post the Eleventh Corps on Oak Hill, the high elevation north of the railroad, the extension of Seminary Ridge, crowned with oaks; but Buford's cavalry videttes came riding in from the north with the startling information that the Confederates in great force were advancing on the Carlisle road. Howard had supposed the only Confederates before him were those of Hill's corps; this new force must be the advance of Ewell. It was reported that the Twelfth

Corps was only five miles distant at Two Taverns, and word was sent to inform General Slocum of the situation of affairs, also to General Sickles, in the direction of Emmettsburg.(")

At two o'clock in the afternoon the Union troops at Gettysburg were

VIEW FROM POSITION HELD BY BAXTER'S BRIGADE, LOOKING EAST.

The view is from the ridge occupied by Baxter's brigade, looking eastward towards Gettysburg. The monument in the foreground is that of the Thirteenth Massachusetts regiment, which faced north, confronting the Confederates in McLain's barn and door-yard. The Eleventh Corps occupied the fields to the left; Dilger's battery was in the field to the left of the monument.

arranged with the First Corps west of the town, and the Eleventh Corps north of it, with the exception of Steinwehr's division, which was on Cemetery Hill. The nearest troops-those which could be called upon by General Howard—were the Twelfth Corps, five miles distant, in position to come up and form on the right of the Eleventh Corps.

Beginning south-west of the seminary, just beyond where Reynolds fell, at the left of the First Corps, we find Biddle's brigade of Rowley's division in the smooth field south of the grove.

General Meredith, of the "Iron Brigade," has been wounded, and Colonel Morrow commands it. The troops stand where they won their success of the morning-in the woods. From the woods to the turnpike the ground is occupied by Stone's brigade of Rowley's division. It has an angle to defend, the line turning east. Reynolds's First New York Battery is stationed with its guns pointing north. Cutler's brigade is on the ground which it occupied in the morning, with Stuart's battery, the Fourth United States.