Identifier: newhistoryofunit02morr (find matches)
Title: A new history of the United States. The greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year ..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The J. C. Winston co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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CUSHING'S LAST SHOT.
line had become disjointed, and the supports of Pickett were repelled and
a large number killed or taken prisoners, but Picketts own division came on
unfalteringly, let fly with a volley at the breastworks in front of them, and
then, with their resounding yells, dashed up the crest of Cemetery Eidge and
drove out the defenders at the point of the bayonet. Immed
iately the hand-to-hand fighting became like that of so many tigers.
Guns were clubbed, men wrestled and fought and struck with their bare fists,
while a fire was converged upon the assailants of so murderous a nature that
even the daring Pickett saw that every one of his men would be killed, if they
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PICKETT'S RETURN FROM HIS FAMOUS CHARGE.
General, by noble disision is swept away.

356 ADMINISTRATION OF LINCOLN.

remained. He gave the order to fall back, and the survivors broke into a run
down the slope for their own lines.
Pickett's charge ranks among the famous in modern history, and was one
of the most striking incidents of the war. The double column which marched
across that fire-swept field numbered 5,000 of the flower of the Confederate army.
Thirty-five hundred were killed, wounded, or taken prisoners. Of the three
brigade commanders, one was killed, the second mortally wounded, and the
third badly hurt. One only of the fourteen field officers returned, and out of
the twenty-four regimental officers, only two were unhurt. The ferocity of the
charge resulted in many deaths among the Unionists, and General Hancock
was painfully wounded, but refused to leave the field until the struggle was
over. And all this valor had gone for naught. The Southerners had attempted

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