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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)
ing an account of the operations of the cavalry command of General David McM. Gregg during the battle of Gettysburg, was referred to Mr. John retted that from the removed position of the field of operations of Gregg's Cavalry, it was found impracticable to embrace it in the general And finally, General Custer, who was temporarily serving under General Gregg with his brigade, forwarded independently an official report of, to say the least, others were entitled to share. The story of Gregg's fight has never been told. The task of telling it now has devolvk, General Kilpatrick, with the Third Division, the centre, and General Gregg, with the Second Division, which was the last of the army to lewhen the column of Stuart was struck, Kilpatrick was followed up by Gregg. In the concentration upon Gettysburg, Gregg, with the First and TGregg, with the First and Third Brigades of his division, left Hanover at daybreak on the 2d of July, and about noon took position on the Bonaughtown (or Hanover) road,
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Gregg's cavalry at Gettysburg (search)
Gregg's cavalry at Gettysburg Major J. Edward Carpenter. Little has been written of the stubborn fight which took place on the 3d of July, 1863, on the right of the Union line at Gettysburg, between the cavalry command of General David McM. GrGeneral David McM. Gregg, and that of the Confederate Chief of Cavalry, General J. E. B. Stuart. In an article published in the weekly times of March 31st, 1877, entitled, The Union cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign, by General Gregg, it is stated: On the 3d, durinGeneral Gregg, it is stated: On the 3d, during that terrific fire of artillery which preceded the gallant but unsuccessful assault of Pickett's Division on our line, it was discovered that Stuart's cavalry was moving to our right with the evident intention of passing to the rear to make a simuement would have been, the merest tyro in the art of war will understand. When opposite our right, Stuart was met by General Gregg with two of his brigades (Colonels McIntosh and Irvin Gregg) and Custer's Brigade of the Third Division; and, on a fa