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Personal Recollections of the War of the Rebellion
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Pennsylvania at Gettysburg
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The Story of the 116th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry
, 135–36.

27.
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Two Days of War
, 84; Harper,
“If Thee Must Fight
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28.
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Stand Firm and Fire Low
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Gettysburg’s Bloody Wheatfield
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30.
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Last Chance for Victory
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Gettysburg’s Bloody Wheatfield
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National Tribune
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A History of the Third South Carolina Infantry
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, 252–53; William P. Wilson to J. B. Bachelder (March 23, 1884) and “General Zook’s Brigade at Gettysburg,” in
Bachelder Papers
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A Scythe of Fire
, 249;
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Civil War Times Illustrated
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New York Herald
(July 12, 1863); Theodore W. Bean,
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O.R.
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The Fifth Army Corps
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O.R.
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34.
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Cartersville
(GA)
Courant American
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“One of the Most Daring of Men”: The Life of Confederate General William Tatum Wofford
(Murfreesboro, TN: Southern Heritage Press, 1997), 19–20, 23, 37, 137; Robert M. Powell, “With Hood at Gettysburg,” in
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, 325.

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SHSP
7 (February 1879), 73–75; Smith,
“One of the Most Daring of Men,”
85; Longstreet,
From Manassas to Appomattox
, 372; Fremantle,
Three Months in the Southern States
, 261.

36.
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New York at Gettysburg
, 1:420;
Wyckoff,
History of the 3rd South Carolina Infantry
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Bachelder Papers
, 1:422, 471–72; Powell,
History of the Fifth Army Corps
, 534–35.

37.
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Last Chance for Victory
, 301–2; Jorgensen,
The Wheatfield at Gettysburg
, 17; “Statement of Lt. Wiliam P. Wilson,” in
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A Scythe of Fire
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Bachelder Papers
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Pennsylvania at Gettysburg
, 2:689; Gilbert Frederick, “57th Regiment Infantry” (October 6, 1889), in
New York at Gettysburg
, 1:420; “Report of Lieut. Col. Alford B. Chapman, Fifty-seventh New York Infantry” (August 5, 1863) and “Report of Col. William S. Tilton, Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry” (July 9, 1863), in
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(Ann Arbor, MI: Huron River Press, 2004), 129; Robert Campbell, “Pioneer Memories of the War Days, 1861–65,” in
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The 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War
(Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2010), 167; “Address of Capt. L. H. Salsbury,” in
Michigan at Gettysburg
, 86; diary entry for July 2, 1863, in
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, 306; Orvey S. Barrett,
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A Soldier’s General
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, 301; “Reports of Brig. Gen. Romeyn Ayres, U.S. Army” (July 28, 1863) and “Report of Col. Sidney Burbank, Second U.S. Infantry” (July 21, 1863), in
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Gettysburg’s Bloody Wheatfield
, 121–22; Joseph Gibbs,
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Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
, 4:469.

42.
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, 152–53; Thomson and Rauch,
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, 239; Oliver Ayer Roberts,
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Fourteenth Annual Reunion of the Regimental Association of the Bucktails, or First Rifle Regiment of the FRVC
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(New York: Savas Beatie, 2005), 177, 179; H. N. Minnigh, “Who Occupied It?—A Discussion of the Movements About the Round Tops,”
National Tribune
(
November 19, 1891); “Report of Capt. Frank C. Gibbs, Battery L, First Ohio Light Artillery” (July 4, 1863), in
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43.
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, 1:74, 112–13, 228, 271; Woodward,
Our Campaigns; or, The Marches, Bivouacs, Battles, Incidents of Camp Life and History of Our Regiment
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, 222, 224; B. F. W. Urban, “The Story of Gettysburg,” 95.

44.
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Bachelder Papers
, 3:1673; Bowden and Ward,
Last Chance for Victory
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Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
, 4:469; McLaws, “The Second Day at Gettysburg,” in
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SHSP
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