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5 f,re | and accurate account of the Are, somehardf onc on:neerThe?ventSome Account of the 64 th N. T. Volt, la Campaiga ofGettsburg.Under a new Commander of the .Army, Gen. Meade having succeeded Gen. Hooker, July lit, we marched* to Taneytown and arranged to go into camp Suddenly orders came to pack . up iod start to reinfotce the rat army\____-______a . #__ _ i#.^ -L,__.aiking cond ickly coneWil-ipiedthecon-:e on corps, engaged a few n.iics ahead at Gettysburg. Gen Gibbon tookmithlt;deStiduliethlt;Tistith(uncon-out.finelouth pan ytworeach in be utediiog,mce:ouldrcauiluedince.command of 2nd corps and Gen. Han cock galloped to the scene of action followed at a slower gait by his old troops. Soon we met the body of Gen. Reynolds going to the rear an-.![der cavalty escort. 1The quick step was continued until into the night, when we halted twomiles out of Gettysburg and . built•breastworks of rails and dirt, with one ax and two shovels for the whole regiment, supplemented with bayonets by * and pocket knives. At 2:30 a. m. of the and of July, the boys quitely made coffee to moisten hardtack and at 4:10 a. m. moved to the battlefield, changing position two or three times, and at a little before 6 a. m„ the In division was massed in a wood to il»e right and east of the Taneytown road. Now all the commissioned officers of the 4th brigarde, except Lieutenants not in command of companies, reported under orders at headquarters of Col. John. R. Brooke, acting Brigardier. Thete in the early dawn Col. Brooke gave us the most ira-raibytooftictnCire!mitri is 1ofCOAtmttAIklt;Uh
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Cattaraugus Times

Cattaraugus, New York, US

Fri, Jul 23, 1909

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