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(SAVING DANIEL SICKLES AT GETTYSBURG)

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(SAVING DANIEL SICKLES AT GETTYSBURG)
<b>72. (SAVING DANIEL SICKLES AT GETTYSBURG) </b>A great war-date 3pp. 8vo., ink inscribed newspaper report written by an unknown author, [n. p., n. d.] concerning the fierce artillery fighting around the Trostle Farm after Sickle advanced his line without orders, in part: "<i>...2nd day's fight at Gettysburg...Let me give one phase of the fight...some Mass batteries. Capt. Bigelow's, Capt. Phillip's two or three more under Capt. McGilvery of Maine were planted on the extreme left advanced... down the Emmittsburg road with...the first division...of Sickle's Corps...after 5 a fierce Rebel charge drove back the infantry & menaced the batteries. Orders are sent to Bigelow...to hold his position at all hazards...then with depressed guns...[and] with double charges of grape & canister he...shatters but cannot break the advancing line. His grape & canister are exhausted...on they come. He falls back on spherical-case...he holds his position...within six paces of the guns...once more...he blows devoted soldiers from his...muzzles...they spring upon his carriages & shoot down his horses. And then...he seizes the guns by hand &...drags 2 of them off...5 out of 6 are saved...in that half hours' fight lost 33 of its men including every sergeant...the Capt...was wounded...it was the first time it was ever under fire...the Rebels now poured on Phillip's battery...it too was forced to drag off the pieces by hand when the horses were shot down. From a new position it opened again...an enfilading fire swept the Rebel line. Sickle's gallant infantry charged the Rebel line...[and] we regained the lost ground...</i>". A great report on a military mistake that almost cost the Union army its very existence. Minor soiling, else very good.<b> $600-800</b>