Identifier: gettysburglincol01burr (find matches)
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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most favorable one for such a move-ment. The whole country for miles in front ofhim, clear up to Cemetery Hill and the RoundTops, lay at his feet. In his rear a cross-countryroad branches off from the York turnpike abouttwo and a half miles from Gettysburg, and, cross-ing over the high ground mentioned by Stuart (inhis report), runs in a southeasterly direction to-ward the Low Dutch Road, which connects theYork and Baltimore turnpikes. This high groundis divided south of the cross-road by the uppervalley of Cress Run, forming two ridges, thatwest of the Run being known as BrinkerhoffsRidge, and that east of it as Cress Ridge. Apiece of woods crowns the easterly side of theridge on the southerly side of the cross-road,affording protection and cover to the supportsof the battery which was subsequently placedthere. Screened by this and another piece ofwoods on the opposite side of the cross-roadis a large open space on the Stallsmith farm,where the Confederate leader was enabled to mass
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t/3 aoH objo 03 i Gettysburg. The Third Day 59 and manoeuvre his command unobserved by hisopponents. ^ The Union cavalry guarding Meades right con-sisted of Mcintoshs (three regiments) and IrvinGreggs brigade of Greggs division and CustersMichigan brigade of Kilpatricks division, in allabout five thousand men. The position occupiedby Greggs force had none of the advantages ofthat which Stuart held. Moreover, Stuart hadwith him between six and seven thousand men. About one oclock in the afternoon, Custer, whohad been ordered to join Kilpatrick at the RoundTops, had commenced his march toward the Unionleft, when Mcintosh reported to Gregg the pres-ence of the enemy and asked for support. Greggaccordingly ordered Custer to remain until hecould bring up his third brigade. There was someskirmishing on the part of the enemy, dismountedtroopers of W. H. F. Lees brigade supporting theskirmishers, and then, emerging from the woodsbehind which his men had been concealed, Stuartscolumns suddenly

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