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The Star of Gettysburg - A Story of Southern High Tide by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
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Northern resistance.

The battle wavered. Sometimes the North was driven back and sometimes
it was the South, until Hill at last, massing a great number of men on
his left, charged with renewed courage and vigor. The Union men could
not withstand their weight, and their flank was rolled up. Then Gordon
and his Georgians marched into the willows that lined Rock Creek,
forded the stream and entered the field of wheat beyond.

Harry saw this famous charge, and during a pause of the Invincibles he
watched it. The Georgians, although the cannon and rifles were now
turned upon them, marched in perfect order, trampling down the yellow
wheat which stood thick and tall before them. The sun glittered on
their long lines of bayonets. Many men fell, but the ranks closed
up and marched unflinchingly on. Then, as they came near their foe,
they fired their own rifles and rushed forward.

The men in blue were taken in the flank at the same time by Jubal Early,
and two more brigades also rushed upon them. It was the same Union
corps, the Eleventh, that had suffered so terribly at Chancellorsville
under the hammer strokes of Jackson, and now it was routed again.
It practically dissolved for the time under the overwhelming rush on
front and flank and became a mass of fugitives.

Harry heard for the first time that day the long, thrilling rebel yell
of triumph, and both Howard and Doubleday, watching the battle intently,
had become alarmed for their force. Howard was already sending messages
to Meade, telling him that the great battle had begun and begging him
to hurry with the whole army. Doubleday, seeing one flank crushed, was
endeavoring to draw back the other, lest it be destroyed in its turn.
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