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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
on Artillery marched with Longstreet's troops. In 1885 appeared W. M. Owens's volume, entitled In Camp and Battle with the Washington Artillery. On pages 243-4 we find this statement concerning the journey made on the morning of July 2, 1863: After waiting until 2:30 A. M. for a clear road, began our march, and at 8 A. M. reported, ready for action, to General Longstreet on the field. An important word remained even yet unspoken. This came at last from the lips of General McLaws on April 27, 1896. He revised his former Gettysburg address-and read it before the Confederate Veterans' Association of Savannah on the date named. From that address I quote: My division arrived at Willoughby Run, about four miles from Gettysburg, at 12 o'clock at night and camped there. During the night I received orders to march on at 4 A. M., but this was countermanded, and I was directed to be ready to move early in the morning. The sun rises about half-past 4 in the first days of July. * * * Not