The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-07-09
THE SECOND DAY
At GETTYSBURG
RetOld After a Lapse OF
Fifty Years.
THE BLUE LINE DRIVEN BACK
Every Stronghold Attacked
ByLee'S Men-Gen Early
Captures Battery.
INVERTEBRATES WIN THE DAY
(By a Military Expert.)

GettysDurg, "a, July z, 1865
The morning of the second day
dawned with the two forces drawn
up, tense and expectant. in risid
battle lines. Lees orders were for
an attack on the Union left as soon
as possible.
Sickles, in command OF tits pOin.,
expected such movement, anu ad
vanced his troops from their psi
ton between Cemeterv Fill and
Round wop to take the mrs: shcck
of the encounter. Longstreet. COM
handing the sonfcderat, right, was
TO deliver the attack
Sickles' men needed time to COM
plete their defense on the ridge
they had occupied. All the work OF
the night before had not awaited to
finish the great task. The men
knowing their suituatiOn, prepared
to throw every ounce of their
strength into the resistance of the
attack.
A rocky eminence. occupied by
Birney was the prize on which the
Confederate eyes rested. They
swarmed about it, pouring in a
deadly fire from infantry and artil-
lery. Birney held his ground.
Round Top. and Little Round TOP
/ cnannsciunly aftnnknh hv tha
men in gray. The advance line
Sickles had thrown out was pressed
back Back through a peach or.
chard the Federals were driven to
the high ground to the east, which
they managed to hold.
Sickles was wounded, his thigh
bone was shattered and he was
borne from the field, but the troops
he had commanded held the emf.
nences they had occupied the nigh,
before.
To the north two divisions of Ew.
ellis corps were hurled at Cemetery
Hill after that Union stronghold
had been made the target for a
hundred cannon for more than an
hour. While the craftsmanship OF
the Confederate artillerymen was
deadly and the losses of the men in
blue something terrific, they held
their ground and beat back the
charging host.
One section of the line was pierre
ed by Early's force and a battery
of artillery was captured But fresh
troops drove out the invaders and
recaptured some of the guns. The
assault on Culp's Hill on the en-
treme right of the Union line was
partially successful and force un-
der Johnson took ground on the
slope which they managed to hold
all night.
Just at sunset Hancock ordered q
charge along the line from Gene
terry Hill to the south and the Con-
federates who had been threatening
his position We're driven back with
heavy losses to the positions they
had vacated to deliver their attack.
There was no part of the field
where the lighting was not desper-
ate during the entire afternoon. Lee
attacked every one of the strong
positions and kept the troops occu-
pying them so busy that there was
no chance from one more sorely
pressed to get assistance from an
other where the tide of battle had
not mounted so high.
Again the end of the days fight
ing found the Confederates with
the advantage.
But when the last gun was fired
and the surgeons aud nurses went
over he field on their errands OF
mercy to the dead and dying, 40.-
oo0 of the men who had MARCH Ito
Gettysburg with the armies were
strewn over tie Felh as desd 'oy des
perately wounded.