Identifier: 16thdecisivebat00long (find matches)
Title: The 16th decisive battle of the world -- Gettysburg
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Long, James T. (James Thomas), b. 1843
Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Publisher: (Gettysburg, Pa.) : Gettysburg Compiler Print.
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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n the Kum-mel farm, the horses reared up into the air andrebounded many feet. The result was thatStuart was defeated by Gen. Gregg of the UnionArmy and Stuart failed to carry out his part ofthe program. On the other hand, had Stuart*been successful, there is no doubt in my mindwhatever but that he would have passed ourright flank, and, in coming up in the rear ofour center on the east side of Cemetery Ridge,in conjunction with Picketts charge from thefront, would have been successful in carryingout Gen. Lees plans of cutting Meades line intwo. Therefore I claim that one of the mostimportant features of the Battle of Gettysburgwas the cavalry fight on the Third Day of July,three and one-half miles east of Cemetery Hill. 0™1N the Third Day of July, at 1.15 p. m.,J a signal gun was fired by the Washing-— ton Artillery of i\rew Orleans, at theedge of the woods west and opposite the PeachOrchard, and then all the guns in position alongLees entire line, in all nearly 200 cannon, open-74
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