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- Introduction
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Abstract: Most historians credit the Army of the Potomac with a clear advantage over the Army of Northern Virginia in the use and effectiveness of field artillery. Despite this, the great majority of unit studies at Gettysburg focus on the infantry. Thomas Nank addresses this shortage with his study of Capt. James Thompson's Independent Battery C, Pennsylvania Light Artillery which, consolidated with Battery F, fought through the chaos of the Peach Orchard on July 2. Our second tactical study focuses on another major action, but from a new perspective. There have been many articles published on the July 2 Confederate assault on Cemetery Hill, but few on the defense of the Union center by the Eleventh Corps. James Pula ... Read More
Keywords: Thompson, James,; United States; Pennsylvania; United States.; Meade, George Gordon,; Reynolds, John Fulton,; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Surgeons; Philadelphia (Pa.); Davis, Emilie Frances,
PubDate: 2018-11-12T00:00:00-05:00
- Serving the Guns in Thompson's Battery
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Abstract: He experienced a thrill of amazement when he came within view of a battery in action. The men there seemed to be in conventional moods, altogether unaware of the impending annihilation. The battery was disputing with a distant antagonist and the gunners were wrapped in admiration of their shooting. They were continually bending in coaxing postures over the guns. They seemed to be patting them on the back and encouraging them with words. The guns, stolid and undaunted, spoke with dogged valor. The precise gunners were coolly enthusiastic. They lifted their eyes every chance to the smoke-wreathed hillock from whence the hostile battery addressed them. The youth pitied them as he ran. Methodical idiots! Machine-like ... Read More
Keywords: Thompson, James,; United States; Pennsylvania; United States.; Meade, George Gordon,; Reynolds, John Fulton,; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Surgeons; Philadelphia (Pa.); Davis, Emilie Frances,
PubDate: 2018-11-12T00:00:00-05:00
- "A Promiscuous Fight": The Defense of Cemetery Hill
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Abstract: Daybreak on July 2, 1863, found the survivors of the Eleventh Corps clinging to the ground on and around Cemetery Hill. Badly bruised on the previous day when Confederates overwhelmed the First and Eleventh Corps and drove them through town to their new refuge on the high ground southeast of the village, their position stretched from roughly Ziegler's Grove north along the Taneytown Road to a point near the junction of the Emmitsburg Road. From there it turned right to the junction of Baltimore Street, then angled back along the northern base of Cemetery Hill. Gen. Adolf von Steinwehr's division held the Taneytown and Emmitsburg Road portions of the line. Where it bent east, Gen. Adelbert Ames's division took over ... Read More
Keywords: Thompson, James,; United States; Pennsylvania; United States.; Meade, George Gordon,; Reynolds, John Fulton,; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Surgeons; Philadelphia (Pa.); Davis, Emilie Frances,
PubDate: 2018-11-12T00:00:00-05:00
- "Our Task Is Not Yet Accomplished": Meade's Decision Making after Victory
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Abstract: In a lost battle the power of an Army is broken, the moral to a greater degree than the physical. A second battle unless fresh favorable circumstances come into play, would lead to a complete defeat, perhaps, to destruction.The three-day battle at Gettysburg had ended, and a fateful aftermath was about to begin! Having conferred with his corps commanders the previous evening, with a heavy heart, Gen. Robert E. Lee issued general orders stating, "The army will vacate its position this evening. … The commanding general earnestly exhorts each corps commander to see that every officer exerts the utmost vigilance, steadiness, and boldness during the whole march."1Following his devastating defeat on the battlefield, in a ... Read More
Keywords: Thompson, James,; United States; Pennsylvania; United States.; Meade, George Gordon,; Reynolds, John Fulton,; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Surgeons; Philadelphia (Pa.); Davis, Emilie Frances,
PubDate: 2018-11-12T00:00:00-05:00
- Of Cupolas and Sharpshooters: Major General John Fulton Reynolds and
Popular Gettysburg Myths-
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Abstract: To watch the iconic 1993 Civil War film Gettysburg and to see its portrayal of Gen. John Fulton Reynolds is to sense that the Union general commanded a place of preeminence in the history of the Army of the Potomac.1 Filmmakers depicted Gen. Reynolds as both architect and hero of the first day's action. In the film, Sergeant Jerome, an aide to Brig. Gen. John Buford, spots Reynolds riding hard and fast to the base of the Lutheran Theological Seminary upon Seminary Ridge. Set to a rousing music score, the scene signals the arrival of salvation for Buford's embattled and hard-worn cavalry brigades: "Thank God," mumbles the grizzly and fierce Buford as he wipes sweat from his brow with a handkerchief. Here, finally ... Read More
Keywords: Thompson, James,; United States; Pennsylvania; United States.; Meade, George Gordon,; Reynolds, John Fulton,; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Surgeons; Philadelphia (Pa.); Davis, Emilie Frances,
PubDate: 2018-11-12T00:00:00-05:00
- Doctors for Hire at the Battle of Gettysburg
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Abstract: In the United States National Archives in Washington, DC, there is a record, only the size of a modern flash card, written in haste with long flowing black cursive letters on the back of an 1865 military medical prescription form. The document reads; "Fuller Charles, no record of service or payment on file, remark on redeployment, 7th A.C. for aug-sept + Oct 1862 at Mill Creek Post House. No conduct on file."1 To the average person this cryptic document does not make much sense and its importance would be easy to discard. But to the careful historian this small scrap of paper represents the only record that the United States Federal Government has preserved of Charles Fuller's service as a contract doctor during ... Read More
Keywords: Thompson, James,; United States; Pennsylvania; United States.; Meade, George Gordon,; Reynolds, John Fulton,; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Surgeons; Philadelphia (Pa.); Davis, Emilie Frances,
PubDate: 2018-11-12T00:00:00-05:00
- Emilie Davis's Diary and the Importance of the Gettysburg Campaign
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Abstract: The recent acquisition of Miss Emilie Davis's Civil War diaries by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania promises to open many of the closed shutters looking out onto war-time Philadelphia. The author's race and sex make her journals especially intriguing. Emilie Davis joins Charlotte Forten Grimké as only the second African American woman whose Civil War diary is known to have survived. Davis was a native Pennsylvanian, having been born free, probably in Lancaster County, in 1839. Her diaries start on January 1, 1863, the day the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. She would then have been about twenty-four years old, and she continued her diaries until the end of 1865. The journals can now be read in two ... Read More
Keywords: Thompson, James,; United States; Pennsylvania; United States.; Meade, George Gordon,; Reynolds, John Fulton,; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Surgeons; Philadelphia (Pa.); Davis, Emilie Frances,
PubDate: 2018-11-12T00:00:00-05:00
- Stories the Monuments Tell: The First Corps on July 1
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Abstract: To friend and foe alike, this whole field is sacred. The baptism of fire and blood is upon it. It was dedicated in smoke of cannon and rifle, which rose like incense during three long summer days and it needs no word nor stroke of pen to reiterate the consecration then given to it.On June 30, 1863, two brigades of Brig. Gen. John Buford's cavalry division passed through Gettysburg and took up position along Chambersburg Pike west of the town. Although he had no orders to defend Gettysburg, he had recognized the heights south of town (Cemetery Hill and Ridge, Culp's Hill) as superior defensive ground for a battle. On the evening of June 30, Buford dispatched a note to First Corps commander, Maj. Gen. John Reynolds ... Read More
Keywords: Thompson, James,; United States; Pennsylvania; United States.; Meade, George Gordon,; Reynolds, John Fulton,; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Surgeons; Philadelphia (Pa.); Davis, Emilie Frances,
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- If You Want To Go: What If There Were No Monuments'
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Abstract: With the controversies over the removal of Civil War monuments, and what they mean to some people, is there any room as to consideration for leaving them up as a reminder to what they should mean to all people'Like many of you reading this installment of "If You Want To Go," I was amazed during the past year at the passion, and even violence from some, over the removal of Confederate statues and monuments around the country. Because of my association with Gettysburg Magazine and my lifetime interest in Civil War history, I was asked by many for an opinion as to what those monuments actually mean, and why were they put there in the first place' Why the big deal'To many the statue of Lee, atop the Virginia Monument ... Read More
Keywords: Thompson, James,; United States; Pennsylvania; United States.; Meade, George Gordon,; Reynolds, John Fulton,; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Surgeons; Philadelphia (Pa.); Davis, Emilie Frances,
PubDate: 2018-11-12T00:00:00-05:00
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