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Title: Gettysburg and Lincoln;
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Burrage, Henry S. (Henry Sweetser), 1837-1926
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg, Pa.) Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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^ In fact, Long-street had been busy during the night in the en-deavor, by means of scouting parties, to find afavorable opportunity for striking a blow onMeades left, and was about to move his commandfor this purpose at sunrise when General Lee rodeup to his headquarters with orders for the day,which included a charge upon Meades left centreby troops from McLaws and Hoods divisions ofLongstreets corps, reinforced by Picketts divi-sion. Longstreet had serious objection to such amovement. *I thought, he says, that it wouldnot do; that the point had been fully tested theday before, by more men, when all were fresh;that the enemy was there looking for us, as weheard him during the night putting up his defences;that the divisions of McLaws and Hood were hold-ing a mile along the right of my line against twentythousand men, who would follow their with-drawal, strike the flank of the assaulting column,crush it, and get on our rear towards the Potomac»From Manassas to Appomattox, p. 385. 11
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Gettysburg. The Third Day 49 River; that thirty thousand men was the minimumforce necessary for the work; that even such forcewould need close co-operation on other parts ofthe line; that the column as he proposed to organ-ize it would have only about thirteen thousandmen (the divisions having lost a third of theirnumber the day before); that the column wouldhave to march a mile under concentrating batteryfire, and a thousand yards under long range mus-ketry; that the conditions were different fromthose in the days of Napoleon, when field batterieshad a range of six hundred yards and musketryabout sixty yards.^ Lee thought Longstreet overestimated the dis-tance. He said it was not more than fourteenhundred yards. He consented, however, to Long-streets view that the divisions of McLaws andHood should remain on the defensive line, andsaid he would reinforce by divisions of the ThirdCorps and Picketts brigades. He also gave direc-tions with reference to the point to which the at-tack sho

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