Identifier: abrahamlincol07nico (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln : a history
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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preparations to meet them.There was a bit of woods just east of WilloughbysRun midway between the two roads, and both sidesrushed to seize it. Reynolds had just sent an ordertoDoubleday, Hold on to theHagerstown road, andI will take care of this one — the Chambersburgroad, on which he had posted Cutlers brigade; hewas watching Solomon Merediths Iron brigade enter the woods on one side and James J. ArchersConfederates going in on the other when he was juiy i, 1863. shot dead by a bullet through the brain. Double-day, who had been placed temporarily in commandof the First Corps, now took charge of the field, andthe fighting began in earnest. At first it was favor-able to the Union arms. Wadsworth on the rightcaptured Archer and a considerable portion of hisbrigade. On the left the attacking force wascaught in a railroad cut beside the Chambersburgroad, and a large number were killed and taken.Wadsworths division held the field until abouteleven oclock, when the rest of the First Corps
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GENERAL JOHN F. REYNOLI GETTYSBURG 241

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