Identifier: decisivebattless00knox (find matches)
Title: Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Monitor (Ironclad) Battles Military history Military art and science Naval battles Naval history Naval art and science Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons New Rochelle, N.Y. : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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his left.It was all in vain, and in turn Geary and Ruger advanced,drove Stewart from the slopes of Culps Hill, and capturedthree stand of colors and five hundred prisoners. It was eleven oclock. The Unionists were completelyvictorious on their right wing and the turnpike was safe.On the extreme left Farnsworth made a gallant charge onLaws lines, and was met and annihilated by Robertsonsbrigade. It was just about this time that Pickett, who was sta-tioned on the strip of ground between Warfield Ridgeand Seminary Hill, set fire to the Codon House, and ex-changed shots with the enemy. This amounted to little,and it was not until one oclock that the battle reallybegan. Two cannon-shots gave the signal, and a moment laterone hundred and thirty-eight Confederate guns opened aconcentrated fire on Cemetery Hill. Eighty Union guns,posted on Cemetery Hill and Cemetery Ridge replied. Itwas the greatest artillery duel of the whole war. It cre-ated immense havoc in the Union lines, but they main-
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SCALE, Or MILE&GETTYSBURGTHE POSITIONS ON THE THIRD OF JULY a UNION ii miiwii CONr£D£RAT£ 255 256 DECISIVE BATTLES SINCE WATERLOO. tained their positions bravely. Finally Meade silencedhis guns in order to draw the enemy to the attack. Pick-ett believing the guns to be disabled, threw his soldiersforward on Zieglers grove. Kemper moved on his rightand Armistead on his left. McGilvery reopened with his battery of forty pieces,and taking Picketts line in flank did tremendous damage.This did not stop the intrepid Southerners, and Pickettsthree brigades advanced on the run, making one of themost magnificent charges in the history of war. Garnett,who led his brigade, fell dead with many of his men, be-fore the withering fire of Gibbons division. The Unionists were intrenched behind rocks and fences,where bullets could not reach them. Still Pickett pressedon, and crossed bayonets with Gibbons men. Stannardssoldiers opened a murderous fire on Armisteads right. Itrecoiled, and Armistea

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