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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 24: the battle of Gettysburg begun (search)

you the order of General Reynolds to bring up your column as rapidly as possible to the assistance of the First Corps, and the order was dispatched immediately back to the columns of Schurz and Barlow. Riding into the town at your side I remember that, as we passed along the road at its base, you pointed to the crest of Cemetery Ridge on our right and said: There's the place to fight this battle, or words to similar effect. Speaking of the same thing in another letter to a friend in February, 1877, Hall says: The impression has always been firmly fixed in my mind that the first suggestion that I ever heard about occupying Cemetery Hill was from General Howard. Once more, in a subsequent letter to me, Captain Hall used these words: I know to a certainty that nobody anticipated you in seeing the importance of Cemetery Hill, and immediately acting upon that conclusion. Major E. P. Pearson, of the Twenty-first Infantry, who was then Captain Pearson, commissary of musters, avers

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