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A Boy’s Experiences During the Battle of Gettysburg
(Gettysburg, 1932), 18; Mary McAllister account, Adams County Historical Society; Mahood,
General Wadsworth
, 189; “Squad of the 17th Conn. First Learned of Lee’s Retreat at Gettysburg,”
National Tribune
(October 8, 1896); Maj. Homer Stoughton to J. B. Bachelder (December 29, 1881), in
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Gettysburg Magazine
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2.
Hanifen,
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National Tribune
(July 24, 1902); “Gettysburg During the Battle—By One Who Was in the Town During the Whole,”
Christian Recorder
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Bachelder Papers
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Pickett’s Charge
, 345, and
The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat
, 50; Christ,
The Struggle for the Bliss Farm
, 82, 117–18; Scott L. Mingus and Thomas M. Mingus, “ ‘An Accident of War’: York County’s Civil War Damage Claims,”
Journal of York County Heritage
(September 2012), 19; Sheldon,
When the Smoke Cleared at Gettysburg
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Scribner’s Magazine
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At Gettysburg; or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle
, 99–100; Winey,
Confederate Uniforms at Gettysburg
, 80; Allen,
Under the Maltese Cross
, 191–92; Marsena
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When the Smoke Cleared at Gettysburg
, 213; Bennett,
Days of “Uncertainty and Dread,”
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SHSP
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New York Herald
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80–81, 82–83; “U.S. Christian Commission—Incidents connected with the report of Rev. P. A. Strobel,”
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(Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1865), 54–55; John Y. Foster, “Four Days at Gettysburg,”
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When the Smoke Cleared at Gettysburg
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As Seen from the Ranks
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14.
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15.
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Early Photography at Gettysburg
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Colors of Courage
, 154–55; James M. Paradis,
African Americans and the Gettysburg Campaign
(Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005), 57; Mark H. Dunkelman,
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