Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-03-22


affair between Stuart and Gregg cavalry
met cavalry and struggled hand to hand
Cor he mastery The hour was simultauC-
obs with chat Of pickctts charge, and stu
ara was attempting Co aid Pickett by fire
IN lhr rear Of tho Union line.
Since that time Gen. Gregg has resisted
every effort t1 draw theatory from his pen,
and his lips remained closed until he met
che Count OF Paris ON the battlefield last
autumu and rcc1unted the particulars
He was marching on 10 Gettysburg, he
said, on July 3 and his route led to the
night rear OF Meade's army. lie saw some
Important points exposed to the Confeder
ales, guarded them until nightfall, Skin
u1ished with Lees infantry, put out pickets
and stationed artillery, and then reported
% headquarters. The instructions given
him for the next day, the Sd, were based
upon what he had reported about his action
0f the 2d, and BE was told TO go back and
bold che ground he had so wisely seized.
Grsgg's force consisted Of two brigades Of
The Second cavalry division, as follows:
First brigade, Col. j. B. Mclntosh-Third
Pennsylvania, First New jersey First
Maryland; Third brigade Col. j. Irwin
Gregg Sixteenth Pennsylvania, Fourth
Pennsylvania, First Maine and Tenth New
York. Company a, PurneIl troop, Mary
land; Company A, First Ohio, Battery
r, First United States; NJ, Second United
States and a section of the Third pennsyl-
gania artillery, were attached TO the Sec
onh division The Second brigade, Third
division, was also serving with Gregg. It
gos led by Col. George A. Custer, and con-
sisted OF the First, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh
Michigan The troops with Gregg, inclu-
ding Custer, numbered 5000 men.
About o'clock on the 81 an order came
ltrOm headquarters for Custer TO rciOin his
division some miles away on the Union left
hank His brigade ut the moment was
depioyed ON the extreme front, a danger
point, and il was while relieving his men
By other troops that the action about to be
described was brought on. Gregg says
that when Custer came in in person from
she outposts he said, General you'll have
a fight here" Gregg then asked Custer to
stay. and he twas well pleased to remain"
Some of Stuart's troopers were engaged
in diminishing with Clusters men when
he attempt was made 90 relieve the latter.
Stuart had four brigades of cavalry and
three batteries, about 700 men in all, and
bis position was somewhat higher than
Greggs and was well screened with woods
Between the two was an open space mile
long and half a mile wide, which soon be
came a bloody lane of strife Gregg's bat
oeries commanded the field.
The brigade OF Col. Mcintosh had taken
position on the ground vacated by that Of
Custer on retiring, and the clrbine ammu,
milton Of these men was exhausted in cop
Ing with the enemy When Clusters men
lr-turned 10 relieve Mcintosh and resume
their place on the front line the Confed-
-s1ates began TO force the fighting, and the
retiring men and their relief both had
tbeir hands full for a time. Finally a Vir-
yinia regiment swept down from Stuart's
line along the open space, directing its
course upon Grcgg's batteries. Near the
center Of the Geld the Fifth Michigan of
Custer and the First New Jersey Of Mcln-
Gosh stood in line across the pathway,
and not being able 90 withstand the Vir-
ginians, separated in the middle, swinging
backward like double gates, and left gap
sfOr the enemy to dash through.