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67. Gallantry at Gettysburg by A.P. Andrews October 19, 1973_Page_10

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the remnants of Howard’s Eleventh. General Lee arrived in time to be a witness to the last attack. So ended the first day at Gettysburg. It was a triumphant day for Lee’s Army. Two Corps of the enemy had been defeated and routed; five thousand casualties and five thousand captured was the price which had been extracted from the Union on July 1, 1863. Davis’ Mississippi brigade had covered itself with honor and glory. With the aid of Archer’s Tennesseans, it had fought for three hours against and overwhelming odds. After being relieved, the Mississippians insisted on staying in the lines and participating in the final charge. Davis’ brigade sustained approximately two-thirds of the casualties sustained by the Rebels at Gettysburg on this first day of battle. That evening, a Mississippian curiously inspected one of the captured six-shot repeating rifles that had been used so effectively against them that morning. Shaking it in the face of one of Buford’s captured cavalrymen, he said: “What do you damn yankees do, load these things on Sunday and shoot ‘em all week?” At mid-night on July 1, Longstreet’s 1st Corps arrived on the field. By the time the gray dawn broke at Gettysburg on July 2, Lee’s army was reunited. That evening had been used wisely by General Meade. By dawn he had positioned the backbone of his army along Cemetery Ridge, just south of Gettysburg. The right wing of the Union Army rested on Culp’s Hill, at the northern extremity of Cemetery Ridge. Its left wing at Big Round Top, three

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