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Veteran of Butte recalls Gettysburg battle diary
A Butte Civil War veteran, EB Wishaar of Battery G, Fourth U.S. Artillery, recalls three days of Gettysburg fighting. He describes bunkers, heavy shell fire, Wilkeson’s death, and a harrowing account of the first day’s knoll fighting to the third day’s brutal assault and the casualties. Wishaar recounts leadership, courage, and the war’s hellish carnage.
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Butte
Bumter
Gettysburg
Wishaar
Fourth
United States Artillery
Slefian
West Virginia
Rich Mounain
Green Briar
Army of the
Eleventh Corps
Chattanooga
Nashville
New York
William Pitts Wishaar
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Sen
United States
Getty
Barlow's Knoll
Cemetery Hill
Lee
Wilkeson
West Point
Tyshure
Pellmell
Wilkenson
Jan
Round Top
Gulp’s Mill
Washington
Confederacy
England