Garry Adelman
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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It was a terrible day for so many people.
It is indeed.
You know, let me say a couple of things.
First, in context, I want to say the reason the second day happens as it does is because General Meade sends forward someone he trusts, Winfield Scott Hancock, to look at the battlefield and decide on his behalf whether or not the army should be ordered up there.
Hancock goes up there and sees the high hills that happen to be formed in the shape of a fishhook and said it was the strongest natural position he ever saw.
It's going to give the North a bunch of advantages, which is why I say they have the initiative, so to speak.
because they can fight defensively on the home turf, on the high ground, with great fields of fire and shift troops back and forth easily.
And yes, those who fought at these terrible places wrote about it.
To paraphrase a few, one guy got sort of prostrated by heat exhaustion, and he was buried in the recesses of rocks, and he could only hear the cries of the combatants, the crash of the shells against the rocks, the screams all blended into one dread chorus.
Another one talked about...
Hearing the enemy officers cursing off their men by company, both sides were whipped and all were mad about it.
Other people turned into wild beasts under this combat, flailing their wounded limbs around and spraying everybody with blood.
Again and again and again, people tried to explain without success from what everybody else, everybody who was there said, without success to get at the horror of the combat at Gettysburg.
So just to bring us up to it really quick, like I said, the union line was in the form of a fishhook on July 2nd.
Lee is going to make mighty attempts to try to break these flanks of the fishhook, the barb in the eye, you could say.
They do not succeed, but...
So as part of these attacks, the Confederates also moved across what would be called the Union Center, the future site of Pickett's Charge.
And with 1,200, 1,300 guys got all the way across the field, broke through some of the Union line and figured the next day, while they're strong on the flanks, they must be weak in the center.
And some of our Georgians just crossed this field.
It's not getting there.
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