memoir · by a contemporary

Two days of war, a Gettysburg narrative

Henry Edwin Tremain (1841–1910), 1905

Named on the page for Battle of Gettysburg.

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Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Internet Archive.

1–3 July 1863

Battle of Gettysburg

JULY FIRST, 1863. 13
tions carefully selected to resist the final assaults that were made on the third and last day. Without those challenging battles, into which the enemy had thus been prematurely forced to his disadvantage on the first and second days at Gettysburg, who shall say that Lee's desperate attempts on the third day might not have brought defeat to the Union forces.

JVLY SECOND, 1863. 75
"Washington, September 8, 1863. General: — I have the honor to submit the following statement of facts connected with the battle of Gettysburg, July 1 and 2, as they transpired under my immediate obser- vation, and of the orders intrusted to me for execu- tion. About 2 p. m. July 1 you directed me to pro- ceed from your headquarters at Emmitsburg and communicate with General Reynolds at or near Get- tysburg. Upon reaching Gettysburg I found that Gen- eral Reynolds had been killed, and the troops imder

JVLY SECOND, 1863. 33
Indeed, history will record that it was the spirit of just such acts in every rank that be- gan, continued, conducted and concluded the battle of Gettysburg, regardless if not in spite of orders. Zook gave little heed to the prom-

AWAY FROM TEE BATTLE. 93
* This was the furious and famous cavalry fight at Gettysburg, of which little was said at the time.

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