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thus our
brigade was enabled to hold a line which htha
sent down a few men from the First corps, and Col.
lvhioeuesolymmbeaenndhwelads
David Ireland, of the 137th New York, gathered
together some loose men on the road, and compelled
them to take their places behind the field works
against General Greene's position.
The enemy advanced in two lines. Our men held
their places well, and repulsed at this point four
charges, when the enemy gave up all further efforts.
Though I recount General Greene's victory thus
briefly, the fire on his front was continuous for 30
minutes.

BATTLE FIELD SOUTH OF GETTYSBURG,
July 2—Midnight.
For seven hours without cessation the army of
the Potomac has been tried by the fire. It hab
suffered terribly, but has beaten the enemy in the
hardest fight it has yet seen.
General Meade, once fully aware of the enemy's
whereabouts, determined to take his own time and
mass his forces properly before fighting the great
battle, and in that view did not assume an offensive
attitude, but merely occupied a position and watched
the enemy. Meanwhile corps by corps our forces
came up, until by noon to-day we had on the field
he whole force with which we fought this battle.
But the enemy had other ideas as to the time when
the battle should take place, and this afternoon some
extensive moven,ents towards our left were disco-
vered, and General Sickles was ordered to advance
his whole corps, and was engaged from 3 to 5 p.m.,
and behaved admirably. Though driven back once,
it was rallied by the general in person, and went on
again, giving and receiving a very heavy fire.
Soon after 5 o'clock the Fifth corps went into
action on the left of the Third corps. At that time,
as for three hours previously, the cannonading was
very heavy. Besides the guns in batteries regularly
Attached to different corps, we had on the field many
batteries of the reserve artillery, posted on emi-
nences at different points in the field, and these,
with our guns on Cemetery hill, thundered tremen-
dously. Rebel batteries were also at work in every
direction, and as our lines form nearly a circle, shells
fram the rebel batteries on both our flanks exploded
near the centre of our position continually, and made

it a hot place.
But, as usual, the fighting at close quarters and
the musketry fire were infinitely the most destruc-
tive, and this continued along our left for four hours.
About 7 p.m. one of those magnificent charges of
infantry so much favoured in the rebel tactics, was
made by the divisions of M'Laws and Anderson.
This advance was made by about 15,000 men,
formed in columns of divisions, and was directed
against our extreme left. Both columns, after they
had almost grasped the victory, were repulsed by
the Fifth corps.
After this terrible fight on our left, and while all
were glad enough that the day was over, a sharp
musketry fire suddenly broke out on our right, at a
point that had been held by the Twelfth corps; but
the greater part of the Twelfth had been withdrawn,
and the place was held only by General Green's
origade, which almost alone repulsed the night
attack.

Every one is exhausted, and there is great misery
for want of water.

BALTIMORE, July 3.

Daring the night of Wednesday Gen. Meade
arrived and commenced fortifying the heights by
the construction of abattis and throwing up earth-
works for a distance of over a mile, in the form of
a crescent, his left resting upon the Emmettsburg
pike and his right upon the hills east of the town.
There was no fighting on the morning of Thursday.
We occasionally threw shell into the woods north-
west of the town as feelers, bat developed nothing
but pickets and skirmishers.
Gen. Meade, however, knew that he had a cun-
ning enemy, and relaxed none of his vigilance or
caution. _ _ .

About 12 o'clock skirmishing commenced on our
left centre, and was kept up on both sides quite
briskly by the sharpshooters. Gen. Robinson re-
marked that this was only a feint of the enemy—
that he would soon appear in force somewhere else.
True enough, about 4 o'clock cannonading and shell-
ing commenced moderately on our extreme left,
where the Third corps, Gen. Sickles, and Second,
Gen. Hancock, were posted, and in the course of an
hour increased to the most terrific degree, accom-
panied with repeated onslaughts from their infantry,
who yelled like so many hyenas.
Their intention was undoubtedly to turn our left,
to accomplish which purpose they had, as usual,
massed their full force upon our extreme left.
General Lee conjectured that our ammunition trains
were perked in that quarter, and he wished to cap-
ture them, but General Meade had taken the pre-
caution to place his old corps—the gallant Fifth—
there in reserve, to guard against any such sur-
prise. .

Between 5 and 6 o'clock the third corps, having
withstood with frightful loss many successive
charges of the enemy's infantry, of many times their
numbers, began to show signs of weakness, and the
Fifth were ordered to charge in and relieve them,
which they did with a will, and forced the enemy
back a mile and a half, making many prisoners.
Persons who have never witnessed a battle can
have no conception of the grandeur of the scene.
The air was perfectly thick with the bursting
shells, and the firing of the muskrtryfitli
space with ballets like hailstone 111
s summer
shower, scattering death and destructionledtrh on every,Be

side.
This was undoubtedly the
must be terrible.
war, and the loss on both srs%
in
their attacks,
ides
contest of the
i
The enemy were most despee I
marched up against
Brigade after brigade wecrork's columns, with the
ildahnaving delivered their fire
Generals Sickles' and
most demoniac fury,
an
till their strength wasroarch over, and perform the spent, they would fall down
and let another line
while they would deploy and re.
same MaI3CCUVre., .
cruit for a repeat
stood like walls of stone
on of the same role.
boys
Meanwhile' our.
their fire, returning it with •
interest,
and received!ig- }-,t batteries mowed the enemy down
with grape an
while our .d,
canister, till • -
the Fifth corps came
support
and delivered their fire. Then it
to their
vas that with one magnificent, combined, enthu-
siastic charge they dispersed the rebels, and drove
them back from their designs upon our left.
It was in this attack that the brave and gallant
Colonel Ed. Everett Cross, of Anzona, Colonel of
the Fifth New Hampshire, and commanding the
First brigado, of the First division of the Second
corps, received his mortal wound. Colonel Crossh
was d native of Lancaster, N.H., but has been
and was
on the Plains. He settled in Arizona, and
He
secretary of a silver mining company there.
and got
publishes the Arizonian newspar
.r,
wr, who
into a difficulty with Silvester 1
Congressc3 from
claitn,d to be elected a delegate inifles,
and Cross's
the Territory. They fought with rifles,
while Mowry
piece having gone off first,
hetsfortunately did not
took deliberate aim at him, but
the Fifth New
hit him. Colonel Cross
raisedrommencement of the
Hampshire Regiment at the
war, and has been in the
service ever since. He was
highly recommended formilitary governor of Ari-
zona last winter, but the
office was not created.
He was wounded by minis ball in the abdomen,
which came out at
a oe, at about six or half
the Spine,
iall half•past tweive last
past six o'clock, and lived. to
the
lest
with
the
krow.
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