Chapter XVIII: The Battle of Gettysburg

General Reynolds's Position. -- Beginning of the Fight. --
General Howard's Account. -- Weiderick's Battery. -- General
Slocum at Two Taverns. -- Howard's Messages. -- General
Hancock's Arrival. -- Color-Bearers of the Nineteenth Indiana.
-- Arrival of the Third Corps. -- SECOND DAY. -- General Meade
on the Field. -- The Cemetery. -- Major Howard. -- Ride along
the Lines. -- Stannard's Brigade. -- Meade's Head-Quarters. --
Position of the Second Corps. -- The Third Corps. -- Sickles's
Position at Noon. -- Lee's Intentions. -- Confidence of the
Rebels. -- Longstreet's Command. -- His Plan. -- Half past
Three. -- The Attack. -- Resistance of the Third Corps. --
McGilvery's Batteries. -- The Ninth Massachusetts Battery. --
Barnes's Division. -- The Regulars. -- Resistance of the
Pennsylvania Reserves. -- Hood's Advance. -- Colonel
Chamberlain's Position. -- Slocum's Movement. -- Doubleday and
Williams. -- Men of Vermont. -- Fourteenth Maine. -- Louisiana
Tigers. -- THIRD DAY. -- The Morning Cannonade. -- Rebel
Prisoners. -- Fight on Culp's Hill. -- Cavalry Operations. --
Lee's Preparations for the last Attack. -- Position of the
Troops. -- Scene at Meade's Head-Quarters. -- The Cannonade. --
Howard's Batteries. -- Hancock wounded. -- The Vermont
Regiments. -- Repulse of the Rebels. -- Scenes along the Lines.
-- In the Rebel Lines. -- Midnight. -- After the Battle. --
Lee's Retreat. -- Meade's Movements. -- Lee at Williamsport. --
Crossing the Potomac. -- Battle at Falling Waters. 269