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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)
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 simu ement 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