CHAPTER XVIII.

THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.

General Reynolds's Position. -- Beginning of the Fight. --

General Howard's Account. -- Weiderick's Battery. -- General

Slocum at Two Taverns. -- Howard's Messages. -- General

Hancock's Arrival. -- Color-Bearers of the Nineteenth Indiana.

-- Arrival of the Third Corps. -- SECOND DAY. -- General Meade

on the Field. -- The Cemetery. -- Major Howard. -- Ride along

the Lines. -- Stannard's Brigade. -- Meade's Head-Quarters. --

Position of the Second Corps. -- The Third Corps. -- Sickles's

Position at Noon. -- Lee's Intentions. -- Confidence of the

Rebels. -- Longstreet's Command. -- His Plan. -- Half past

Three. -- The Attack. -- Resistance of the Third Corps. --

McGilvery's Batteries. -- The Ninth Massachusetts Battery. --

Barnes's Division. -- The Regulars. -- Resistance of the

Pennsylvania Reserves. -- Hood's Advance. -- Colonel

Chamberlain's Position. -- Slocum's Movement. -- Doubleday and

Williams. -- Men of Vermont. -- Fourteenth Maine. -- Louisiana

Tigers. -- THIRD DAY. -- The Morning Cannonade. -- Rebel

Prisoners. -- Fight on Culp's Hill. -- Cavalry Operations. --

Lee's Preparations for the last Attack. -- Position of the

Troops. -- Scene at Meade's Head-Quarters. -- The Cannonade. --

Howard's Batteries. -- Hancock wounded. -- The Vermont

Regiments. -- Repulse of the Rebels. -- Scenes along the Lines.

-- In the Rebel Lines. -- Midnight. -- After the Battle. --

Lee's Retreat. -- Meade's Movements. -- Lee at Williamsport. --

Crossing the Potomac. -- Battle at Falling Waters. 269

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