Identifier: historyofamerica03drap (find matches)
Title: History of the American Civil War
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Draper, John William, 1811-1882
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slavery Slaves
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
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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ithout very great loss, arisingfrom the troops passing through the townand getting into confusion in the streets. It could not beotherwise; for EwelTs whole corps and two thirds of Hills—50,000 men—had been thrown upon Reynolds and How-ard, only 21,000 strong; Hill assailing them in front, andEwell on their right flank, inflicting on them a loss of near-ly 10,000 men and 16 guns. Gettysburg was at once occupied by Ewell, who ad-Lee fails to attack vanced from it toward the cemetery. As thecemetery Hin. national troops were in the act of receding tothat position at 4 P.M., Lee and Hill, from the edge of thepine woods on the top of one of the adjacent ridges, werereconnoitring. They made a fatal mistake. Instead ofat once assaulting the cemetery on Culps Hill, they putoff the attack until the next day, though they had forceamply sufficient to carry the position at once. Lee saysthey were induced to do this because the enemys forcewas unknown. It wanted several hours to sunset. These
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CATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. Chap.LXX.) posting of the national army. 141 were the longest days of the year. But they preferred towait until Longstreets corps could come up, forgetting thatif re-enforcernents were swiftly advancing on one side, so,too, they were probably on the other. Meade was at Taneytown, fourteen miles south of Get-tysburg, considering the defensive line he had projectedon Pipe Creek. Every thing was in confusion. At 1P.M., like a thunder-clap out of a clear sky, news reachedhim that a battle had taken place near Gettysburg, andthat Reynolds was killed. At once he ordered Hancockforward to take command. That officer drove in an am-bulance to the field as fast as he could, studying the mapsas he went, and arrived at the moment that the Confeder-ates were seizing Gettysburg. Without delay, he, in con-junction with Howard, proceeded to post the troops on theCemetery, and made ready to repel any attack; and, per-ceiving the advantages of the position, he ad-MeadBtobringon vi

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