Confederate Army, The, eludes ours, _note_, 32;
and invades Pennsylvania, 23;
its strength, 24;
its composition, _note_, 32;
points of superiority, 24, 25;
its _personnel_, 26, 27;
at Chambersburg, 26, 27;
moves to York and Carlisle, 28;
its spirit, 29;
moves to concentrate, 52;
its advance upon Gettysburg is disputed, 62;
finally defeats the forces opposed to it, 69, _et seq._;
losses, _note_, 80;
all but one division up night of July 1, 91;
how formed, _note_, 110;
the attack on Sickles, 115;
Sickles defeated, 123;
Longstreet's losses, 125;
Cemetery Ridge reached by Hill's troops, 125;
Ewell gains a foothold at Culp's Hill, 126;
advantage to the Confederates, 127;
position at close of the day, _note_, 131;
Ewell expelled from Culp's Hill, 136;
cannonades Union position, 137;
final attack repulsed, 141, _et seq._;
evacuates Gettysburg, 150;
getting ready to retreat, 150;
retreat effected, 157;
losses, _note_, 159.
Culp's Hill, its relation to Cemetery Hill, 19;
occupied by Union troops, 84;
made secure, 87;
enemy gain a lodgment at, 126;
retaken, 136.
Cumberland Valley, route of Lee's invasion, 23;
exodus from, 34.
Curtin, A. G., his efforts to meet the invasion, 36.
DEVIL'S DDEN, The, situation of, 20;
surroundings, _note_, 22;
struggle for its possession, 115, 116, 117;
in the enemy's hands, _note_, 131.
EARLY'S (J. E.) operations around York, 28;
as a blind, _note_, 33;
recalled to Gettysburg, 52;
his arrival decides the day, 73, 76;
assaults Cemetery Hill, July 2, 128;
but is forced out, 129.
Emmettsburg Road, described, 21;
picketed by Union troops, 88;
its relation to the hostile armies, 99;
becomes a point of direction for Longstreet's attack, 114.
Ewell's Confederate corps at Chambersburg, 26;
moves on to Carlisle and York, 28;
moves to Gettysburg and decides the first of July, 69, _et seq.;_
but hesitates to attack Cemetery Hill, 81.
FREDERICK, Md., becomes the pivot for the Union army, 40.
GETTYSBURG, described, 10, 11;
its strategic value, 13, 14, 15, _et seq._;
its topography, 15, 16, _et seq._;
Cemetery Ridge, 16;
Seminary Ridge, 17;
commanding points, 19, 20;
Cemetery Ridge as a defensive line, 20; _notes_ 1, 2, and 3, p. 21;
memorials of battle, _note_, 21;
first appearance of Confederates in, 28; and _note_, 33;
Lee's whole army marching to, 52;
Union forces approaching, 55;
how and where the battle began, see Chap. V., p. 60;
in first day's conflict, 60, _et seq._;
occupied by Ewell, 78;
evacuated, 150.
Great Round Top, how situated, 19.
HANCOCK, Winfield S., organizing victory from defeat, 81, 82, 83;
orders Culp's Hill occupied, 84;
his report to Meade, 85; _note_, 95;
sends Geary's division to Little Round Top, 88.
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