Transcriber's Note: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=. Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. * * * * * WORKS BY SAMUEL ADAMS DRAKE =OLD LANDMARKS AND HISTORIC PERSONAGES OF BOSTON.= Illustrated $2.00 =OLD LANDMARKS AND HISTORIC FIELDS OF MIDDLESEX.= Illustrated 2.00 =NOOKS AND CORNERS OF THE NEW ENGLAND COAST.= Illustrated 3.50 =CAPTAIN NELSON= A Romance of Colonial Days .75 =THE HEART OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.= Illustrated (Illuminated Cloth) 7.50 Tourist's Edition 3.00 =AROUND THE HUB.= A Boy's Book about Boston. Illustrated 1.50 =NEW ENGLAND LEGENDS AND FOLK LORE.= Illustrated 2.00 =THE MAKING OF NEW ENGLAND.= Illustrated 1.50 =THE MAKING OF THE GREAT WEST= 1.75 =OLD BOSTON TAVERNS.= Paper .50 =BURGOYNE'S INVASION OF 1777= .50 =THE TAKING OF LOUISBURG= .50 _Any book on the above list sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price, by_ LEE AND SHEPARD, BOSTON [Illustration: GEORGE GORDON MEADE] Decisive Events in American History THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG 1863 BY SAMUEL ADAMS DRAKE AUTHOR OF "BURGOYNE'S INVASION," "TAKING OF LOUISBURG," ETC. "The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here" ABRAHAM LINCOLN BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 10 MILK STREET 1892 Copyright, 1891 By LEE AND SHEPARD THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG PRESS OF Rockwell and Churchill BOSTON CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. GETTYSBURG 9 II. THE MARCH INTO PENNSYLVANIA 23 III. FIRST EFFECTS OF THE INVASION 34 IV. REYNOLDS 46 V. THE FIRST OF JULY 60 VI. CEMETERY HILL 81 VII. THE SECOND OF JULY 97 VIII. THE SECOND OF JULY--_continued_ 112 IX. THE THIRD OF JULY 132 X. THE RETREAT 150 XI. THINGS BY THE WAY 160 THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG 1863 I Gettysburg[1] [Sidenote: The Town.]