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Title: Gettysburg; the story of the battle of Gettysburg and the field, described as it is on the fiftieth anniversary, 1863-1913
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Railroad
Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Publisher: (Philadelphia?)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ggs cavalry to the east. To supplement this attack on Gulps Hill, EarlysDivision was ordered to take East Cemetery Hill bystorm, supported by four batteries of artillery on Ben-ners Hill, and Rodes and Penders Divisions on theright flank. Coming through the ravine between Gulps HjU andCemetery Hill, Earlys men first met Von Gilsas Brigadewhich was posted behind a stone fence at the foot of thehill. Ames Brigade was still further around the foot ofthe hill, enclosing Ricketts and Wiedricks batteries onthe higher ground above. Stewarts and Reynoldsbatteries were also brought to bear on the enemy. On a shoulder of the west side of Gulps Hill, nowknown as Stevens Knoll, was the Fifth Maine Battery,which poured a galling fire into the flank of Earlys-advance. The guns on the side of Cemetery Hill also addedtheir share of the storm of bullets rained upon the Con-federate ranks, but owing to the conformation of theground, they could not be sufficiently depressed to rakethe storming force. 32
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Von Gilsas men fought bravely and so did Amestroops, but the onslaught was too fierce. They weregradually forced back amongst the guns on the crest ofthe hill, Hays men driving them like sheep before them. Wiedricks battery was captured, and two ofRicketts guns were spiked. But still the Union linesfought on in the now thick darkness. Lacking guns,the artillerymen fought with hand-spikes, rammers,staves, and even with stone in defense of the cannon. Stevens battery poured in a fire of double canisteron the left flank of the Confederates and the 33dMassachusetts raked them on the other side. Theslaughter was terrific. Heavy smoke darkened the nightair, fitfully lighted by bright flashes from the cannonbelching solid shot and canister. But Hays and Gordons men could not win thefight alone, and no support came from the other quarterwhere Rodes was marching from Gettysburg to attackHoward in the rear. Soon the coming of infantry, sentby Hancock in aid of the force on Cemetery Hill,materia

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