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The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1863., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1860., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The right flank at Gettysburg. (search)
Nothing was said as to any previous firing, and everything was quiet at the time. Custer reported, however, that the enemy were all around, and that an attack might be expected at any moment from the right and rear. The First New Jersey, under Major Beaumont, was at once ordered out, mounted, to relieve Custer's lines, and took position in the woods on the Salem Church road, facing to the northwest. The Third Pennsylvania, under Lieutenant Colonel Jones, and First Maryland, under Lieutenant Colonel Deems, were drawn up in close columns of squadrons in a clover field west of the Lott house, awaiting developments. While in this position, and a few minutes after one o'clock, the tremendous artillery firing which preceded Pickett's attack began. Not being in the line of fire, however, the officers and men of the brigade, while allowing their horses to graze, looked with amazement upon the magnificent spectacle. As soon as the Michigan Brigade had withdrawn from the field for the p
Daniel McPherson, residing near Fayetteville, N. C., committed suicide on the 6th inst., by cutting his throat. No fewer than fifteen Irish officers in the service of the Pope were taken prisoners at Ancona — and released. Frederick W. Brune, a retired and formerly extensive shipping merchant of Baltimore, died on the 7th inst. Nathan Dean, of Georgia, who was a soldier in 1776, and fought through the war, is now in his 110th year. The newly-elected Legislature of Illinois is Black Republican, securing Trumbull's reelection. Navigation is suspended on the Dismal Swamp Canal, at present, in consequence of a break. Dr. Geo. W. Pierson, of Biddeford, Me., committed suicide on the 6th inst., by taking strychnine. In the whole United States there are nearly six times as many journals as in Great Britain. Rev. Dr. Deems, of North Carolina, has returned from Europe.
Mrs. Brown says "editors is making a great fuss over sassafras tea, jest as of it war some thing new. For her part, she was raised on it, and so was Deems as Betsy Ann, and her 'spicion is, a hope of the editors' mammies fed them on it, too."