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Identifier: 06079300.3221.emory.edu
Title: Maine at Gettysburg (electronic resource)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Gettysburg Commission (Me.)
Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Publisher: Portland, Me. : Lakeside Press
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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eyond the Emmitsburg Road, the capture of abatch of prisoners, and the re-capture of a piece of artilleryfrom the enemy. This successful and promising movement,however, was not followed up. There was a sharp and hardcavalry battle between Gregg, in conjunction with Custer, andStuart, when the latter endeavored with his cavalry to passaround the Union right flank on the third day. Charges andcounter charges were made there, and the Confederates, beingdefeated, withdrew from the field. Lee spent all of the fourth day and until daylight on thefifth preparing for retreat, but in the meantime intrenching forany attack that might be made. But Meade did not attack;nor would he adventure anything. He permitted Lee to fallback to the Potomac without following up the advantage thathe had gained. Lee crossed the Potomac at Williamsport andwas followed some days after by Meade. Of the forces actually engaged, the Union loss in the battleof Gettysburg was twenty-three thousand out of seventy-eight
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-mil §1? CAVALRY ENGAGEMENTJuly3rd. 1863. AT BATTLE O F GETTYSBURG Union »—* Confederate MAINE TROOPS ENGAGED. 13 thousand; the Confederate was twenty-three thousand out ofseventy thousand, — about one-third of the entire numberengaged. In the following chapters will be found the accounts of theMaine troops at Gettysburg arranged in chronological order asfollows :— Second Maine Battery, Capt. James A. Hall. Sixteenth Maine Regiment, Col. Charles W Tilden. Fifth Maine Battery, Capt. Grreenlief T. Stevens. Third Maine Regiment, Col. Moses B. Lakeman. Fourth Maine Regiment, Col. Elijah Walker. Seventeenth Maine Regiment, Lieut.-Col. Charles B. Merrill. Twentieth Maine Regiment, Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain. Nineteenth Maine Regiment, Col. Francis E. Heath. Sixth Maine Battery, Lieut. Edwin B. Dow. Co. D, 2d IT. S. Sharpshooters, Capt. Jacob McClure. Fifth Maine Regiment, Col. Clark S. Edwards. Sixth Maine Regiment, Col. Hiram Burnham. Seventh Maine Regiment, Lieut.-Col. Selden Conn

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