He was an officer in the Pioneer Guards, and when the war broke out was made a lieutenant in the First regiment, was in all the battles of that famous organization up to and including Gettysburg; was commander of the regiment for some time after the battle.

And yet here is a battle the name of which is hardly more than known in America, yet the losses on both sides amount to more than the entire army that General Meade commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, are forgotten in Europe by all excepting those who study recent wars as lessons for the future, and would collect from the deeds of other armies experience which they may apply to their own.

To them the boldness of Lee's tactics at Chancellorsville will ever be a subject of admiration; while even those who least sympathize with his cause will feel for the general who saw the repulse of Longstreet's charge at Gettysburg, and beheld the failure of an attempt to convert a defensive war into one of attack, together with the consequent abandonment of the bold stroke which he had hoped would terminate the contest.

The drawn battle of Gettysburg proved that the invasion of the Northern States was a blunder; and in 1863 it became evident that the fall of the Confederacy could not be much longer delayed.

At Gettysburg only he was defeated in a pitched battle; on the offensive at the Chickahominy, at Centreville, and at Chancellorsville, on the defensive at Antietam, Fredericksburg, the Wilderness, and Spottsylvania, he was still successful.

In such moments we should remember that just after the delivery of the Gettysburg Address Lincoln believed it an utter failure.

So, when it became known in Troy early one Friday morning in summer, about ten years after the war, that old Captain Walker, who had served in Mexico under Scott, and had left an arm on the field of Gettysburg, had been foully murdered during the night, there was intense excitement in the village.

The battle of Gettysburg sealed the fate of the Maximilian Empire, as well as the fate of the empire of the United States.

Army of the Potomac, peninsular campaign; at Gettysburg; in Wilderness campaign; disbanded.

Gerry, Elbridge. Gerrymander. Gettysburg, battle of.

Gettysburg Address, Lincoln's.

Lincoln, Abraham, debates with Douglas, in Illinois senatorial contest; elected president; during Civil War; inauguration speech; Emancipation Proclamation; Gettysburg Address; peace conference with Stephens; reflected; assassinated.

LEWARS, ELSIE SINGMASTER. Gettysburg; stories of the Red Harvest and the aftermath.

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First National Bank of Gettysburg (E); 14Jan60; R250247.

Swords of steel, the story of a Gettysburg boy, by Elsie Singmaster.

Lincoln goes to Gettysburg.

Lincoln, Meade and Gettysburg.

Lincoln, the President; Springfield to Gettysburg.

No Revolutionary regiment or brigade suffered such a loss as befell the 1st Minnesota at Gettysburg, where it lost 215 out of 263 men, 82 per cent.

It was the scene of one of those actions in the long siege line which have the dignity of a battle; the losses on either side, about sixteen thousand, were two-thirds of those at Waterloo or Gettysburg.

All this had been in the field of that battle of a day, which was as fierce as the fiercest day at Gettysburg, and fought within about the same space.

But then, how many Americans have been to Mount Vernon and Gettysburg?

Emancipation Proclamation, Vicksburg, and Gettysburg.