Identifier: swordpenorventura00owen (find matches)
Title: Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Owens, John Algernon
Subjects: Glazier, Willard, 1841-1905 Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Philadelphia : P.W. Ziegler and Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he threw himself downbefore a murderous discharge of grape and canister,which mowed the grass and men all around him asthough a scythe had been swung just above his pros-trate form. During the terrific cannonade and subsequentcharges, our ammunition and other trains had beenparked in rear of Round Toj), which gave them splen-did shelter. Partly to possess this train, but mainlyto secure this commanding position, General Long-street sent two strong divisions of infantry, with heavyartillery, to turn our flank, and drive us from thisground. Kilpatrick, with his division, which had beenstrengthened by Merritts regulars, was watching thispoint and waiting for an opportunity to strike the foe.It came at last. Emerging from the woods in frontof him came a strong battle-line, followed by others. To the young Farnsworth was committed the taskof meeting infantry with cavalry in an open field.Placing the Fifth New York in support of Eldersbattery, which was exposed to a galling fire, but mad«
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**BATTLES FOR THE UNIONS 333 reply with characteristic rapidity, precision and slaugh-ter, Farnsworth quickly ordered the First Virginia, theFirst Vermont, and Eighteenth Pennsylvania m lineof battle, and galloped away and charged upon theflank of the advancing columns. The attack wassharp, brief and successful, though attended with greatslaughter. But the rebels were driven upon theirmain lines, and the flank movement was prevented.Thus the cavalry added another dearly earned laurelto its chaplet of honor—dearly earned^ because manyof their bravest champions fell upon that bloody field. Thus ended the battle of Gettysburg—the bloodyturning-point of the rebellion—the bloody baptism ofthe redeemed republic. Nearly twenty thousand menfrom the Union ranks had been killed and wounded,and a larger number of the rebels, making the enor-mous aggregate of at least forty thousand, whose bloodwas shed to fertilize the Tree of Liberty. The following peroration to the glowing account ofthe

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