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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)
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Chapter 25: the battle of Gettysburg; the second and third day
When the troops that had gathered on Cemetery Hill went to sleep the night of Wednesday, July 1, 1863 they anticipated that Lee would renew the attack upon them very early the next morning from the direction of our right, for two reasons: one that reports showed that Ewell's men had been working off into that quarter, where they had the shelter of trees.
And the other reason was, that we thought that greater immediate results nary cannonade.
Many of the Confederate leaders thought that their fearful artillery had disabled ours and silenced the batteries.
During this artillery duel I had been watching the events, sitting in front of my batteries on the slope of Cemetery Hill.
Feeling that my greatest danger came from the strippings of the shells as they flew over my head, I had cracker boxes piled behind us-affording protection from our own cannon.
In the lull I suddenly observed beautiful lines of regiments a