The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-01
BATTLE OF JULY 1st. NEAR
 GETTYsBURG. PENN.

Baltimore, July 2-6 p. n- About half-past g o'clock yesterday morning as the First army corps passed through Gettysburg on its way northward, it's advance encountered the enemy's sktr- mishers in by-streets and out of the way Ilaces. These were quickly dis lodged by our skir1nishers and the column proceeded. When our advance reached a point about half a mile north of the town it came upon the enemy under General Ewe11 command ing the right of General A. P. Hill's corps.
 General Reynolds was immediately notified and he rode to the front, where he found the advance of the two armies engaging each other, prtn- cfpaIIy upon the right of the road. The fight at first was almost entirely an infantry engagement, as the na- ture. of the ground was such as to preclude the use of artillery on either side. General Reynolds observing that he could not use his artillery to ad- vantage rode out to an imminence a short distance from the road to find a place to plant a battery, when he received a voIley from some sharp shooters posted in thicket close at hand. His borse became unmanage- able wheeled and reared, and at the same time ball struck the general in tne bslsk cf the neck, passing dazvr- ward severing the spinal column and killing him instantly.
 s His forces fought on and succeeded in driving the enemy before them short distance, until the rebels reach ed the cover of their main body. Here the full force of the enemy was dis covered and our men fell back to the line of the first encounter, and word was sent back to the Second, Third and Eleventh corps to come up. But his troops retired step by step and in most excellent order. Forward with the utmost enthusiasm pressed the rebel line, eager now to turn Key nolds' retirement into a rout. Some of the rebels had too much energy, and got too far; for while they press ed too closely on the right Of the centre division the left of the same division suddenly swept around, and then enclosed in the handsomest man ne1 a rebel brigade under General Archer. General Archer and his whole staff were taken. About f1f teen hundred of the enemy's men thus fell into our hands and went to the rear.
 Upon the fall of General Reynolds, General Doubleday assumed command of the First corps and directed affairs until the arrival of General Howard. oe the Eleventh who relieved him. The Eleventh corps was the first to arrive, then the Second and Third corps in order.
 ed and the arrangements had been perfected, the whole column moved forward and soon were hot1y engaged. The First corps of General Reynolds had been engaged with the enemy probably about two hours when the Eleventh arrived on the ground, hur- ryfng up to meet the noise of battle toward us. So far the corps had ap- peared to have the advantage; but about the time of our arrival the reb- els had partially succeeded In turn ing their right flank.
 Arriving on the ground General Howard assumed command, and inn mediately made his dispositions for the battle. The First corps was at this time on a wooded ridge near the Lutheran Theological Seminary; to the right was another range of hill; the right being wooded and crossed by the Harrisburg road. General How Eleventh corps be placed on this range of hills, the First division on the right and the Third division on the left of the Harrisburg road, a stream being on our extreme right. The Second division was held as a gener- al reserve
 General schurz, being in command of the Eleventh corps, endeavored to take the position indicated; but owing to the flank of the rebels on the right of the First corps we were not able to reach the favorable point desired. The rebel corps of General A. P. Hill had, so far, engaged the First corps. But at this time General Ewell's corps of twenty-five thousand men arrived by the Rock road. It was this over wheIming force which was to be met by seven thousand men: Before they
 e5<,A@- e1Hrz position the rebels had batteries so posted that our co1upns moving on an air line afterward were exposed to- a destructive cross fire. General Barlow on the right with the First division, made a most desperate effort to take and hold the position assign ed him. The brave General, it is said, while riding along in front of his line encouraging his men, while the skir- n1ishers were firing, was hit by a mus ket ball and severely wounded in the thigh or groin. The division fought bravely and lost heavily, the brigade of General vonGilsa holding their po- sition firmly and that of General Ames doing well.
 The Third division, that of General Schirnmelpfennig was Immediately meanwhile striving bravely nobly to hold the position they were directed to hold, on the right of the First corps and on the cleared part of the field between the position of General Barlow and the Seminary.
 The losses in this division show how well 1t fought. The brigades were by Colonels Krzyzanowskt and Won Amesberg. Colonel Von Amesberg had two horses shot under him but escaped uninjured. Colonel Krzyzanowski was hurt but not dis abled by his horse falling with him. Colonel McGroarty, of the 61ste Ohio behaved with his usual distinguished gallantry, but escaped injury as if by a miracle. Colonel Brown of the 157th