Stuart Louis Vuitton Alma BB, the famous Confederate cavalry commander, had moved forward to turn the Union right, but he was met by Gregg's cavalry, and there followed a contest, at close quarters, with "the white arm" It closed with a desperate melee, in which the Confederates, charged under Generals Wade Hampton and Fitz Lee, were met in mid career by the Union generals Custer and McIntosh All four fought, saber in hand, at the head of their troopers, and every man on each side was put into the struggle Custer, his yellow hair flowing, his face aflame with the eager joy of battle, was in the thick of the fight, rising in his stirrups as he called to his famous Michigan swordsmen: "Come on, you Wolverines, come on" All that the Union infantry, watching eagerly from their lines, could see, was a vast dust-cloud where flakes of light shimmered as the sun shone upon the swinging sabers At last the Confederate horsemen were beaten back, and they did not come forward again or seek to renew the combat; for Pickett's charge had failed, and there was no longer hope of Confederate victory.
When night fell, the Union flags waved in triumph on the field of Gettysburg; but over thirty thousand men lay dead or wounded, strewn through wood and meadow, on field and hill, where the three days' fight had surged.
GENERAL GRANT AND THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN.
What flag is this you carry Along the sea and shore The same our grandsires lifted up-- The same our fathers bore In many a battle's tempest It shed the crimson rain-- What God has woven in his loom Let no man rend in twain To Canaan, to Canaan, The Lord has led us forth, To plant upon the rebel towers The banners of the North --Holmes.
GENERAL GRANT AND THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN.
On January 29, 1863, General Grant took command of the army intended to operate against Vicksburg, the last place held by the rebels on the Mississippi, and the only point at which they could cross the river and keep up communication with their armies x and territory in the southwest.
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