Gettysburg the Pivotal Battle of the Civil War
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Longstreet must have lost two precious hours in marching, counter-marching, and manoeuvring for position. There was no vain show in the preparations for battle on either side. Sick- les' regiments awaited the onset behind such hastily constructed cover as they could improvise, and his batteries occupied all the prominent knolls of com- manding position, within and to the rearward of the Salient; while the Confederate artillery, far down [158 1 GETTYSBURG the Emmetsburg Road, bristled from every... hill-top and showed their gaping mouths from the wood- screened heights of Seminary Ridge, as the long lines of ragged butternut crept nearer and ever nearer.
At last, late in the afternoon, Longstreet's bri- gades were in readiness. They were drawn close around and confronting the Salient from the north- west, from the west, from the southwest, and from the south. And here we will pause for a moment while we take a last look at Sickles' Salient before the battle opened. Could you, O reader, open an immense pair of dividers at right angles, and lay them upon that fair, diversified field, the point rest- ing on the Emmetsburg Road one hundred yards southwest of the crossing of the Wheatfield Road, the left limb would lie along the Emmetsburg Road, pointing toward Cemetery Hill, while the right limb would point directly toward Little Round Top ; but while Humphreys' wing on the Emmetsburg Road followed a ridge and was nearly straight through- out its length, Birney's wing, running in a generally southeast direction, followed no ridge or defensive [159] GETTYSBURG line in particular, but was very crooked, doubling back and forth among the hills, swamps, and rocks, taking advantage of every position that afforded shelter and defence.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Longstreet must have lost two precious hours in marching, counter-marching, and manoeuvring for position. There was no vain show in the preparations for battle on either side. Sick- les' regiments awaited the onset behind such hastily constructed cover as they could improvise, and his batteries occupied all the prominent knolls of com- manding position, within and to the rearward of the Salient; while the Confederate artillery, far down [158 1 GETTYSBURG the Emmetsburg Road, bristled from every... hill-top and showed their gaping mouths from the wood- screened heights of Seminary Ridge, as the long lines of ragged butternut crept nearer and ever nearer.
At last, late in the afternoon, Longstreet's bri- gades were in readiness. They were drawn close around and confronting the Salient from the north- west, from the west, from the southwest, and from the south. And here we will pause for a moment while we take a last look at Sickles' Salient before the battle opened. Could you, O reader, open an immense pair of dividers at right angles, and lay them upon that fair, diversified field, the point rest- ing on the Emmetsburg Road one hundred yards southwest of the crossing of the Wheatfield Road, the left limb would lie along the Emmetsburg Road, pointing toward Cemetery Hill, while the right limb would point directly toward Little Round Top ; but while Humphreys' wing on the Emmetsburg Road followed a ridge and was nearly straight through- out its length, Birney's wing, running in a generally southeast direction, followed no ridge or defensive [159] GETTYSBURG line in particular, but was very crooked, doubling back and forth among the hills, swamps, and rocks, taking advantage of every position that afforded shelter and defence.
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