...and the batteries began throwing canister, but the smoke and darkness enabled the brigade to escape " what in the full light of day could have been nothing else than horrible slaughter. ' ' Panic seized the Federals as Hays pushed on up the slope, over a stone wall where many prisoners...

...now within canister range, opened upon us, but owing to the darkness of the evening verging into the night, and the deep obscurity afforded by the smoke...could have been nothing else than horrible slaughter." Meanwhile our batteries on the crest of East Cemetery Hill were powerless. Breck's (Reynolds') four...

...now within canister range, opened upon us ; but owing to H1e darkness of the evening verging into the night, and the deep obscurity afforded by the smoke...could have been nothing else than horrible slaughter." Behind a stone wall in the low ground at the head of the valley separating Gulp's and Cemetery Hill...

...darkness, most of the shells were poorly aimed and flew harmlessly overhead. Hays admitted afterward "we thus escaped what in the full light of day could have been nothing else than horrible slaughter." Captain Seymour agreed and wrote, The Yankees have anticipated this movement and now thirty pieces...

...and Avery managed to elude their tormentors. "Our exact locality could not be discovered by the enemy gunners, and we thus escaped what in the full light of day could have been nothing else than horrific slaughter." On they went after breaking through a second line hidden behind a stone wall until...

...and the batteries began throwing canister, but the smoke and darkness enabled the brigade to escape " what in the full light of day could have been nothing else than horrible slaughter." Panic seized the Federals as Hays pushed on up the slope, over a stone wall where many prisoners were...

...brigades advanced steadily up and over the first hill and into a bottom at the foot of Cemetery hill. Here we came upon a considerable body of the enemy,...the full light of day, could have been nothing else but horrible slaughter. Taking advantage of this, we continued to move forward until we reached the...

...but owing to the darkness of the evening, now verging into night, and the deep obscurity afforded bv the smoke of the firing, our exact locality could...could have been nothing else than horrible slaughter. Taking advantage of this, we continued to move forward until we reached the second line, behind a stone...

...firing., our exact locality could not be discovered by the enemy's a H U £ a W H m a as H U, O y a gunners and we thus escaped what in the full light of day could have been nothing less than a horrible slaughter. "Taking advantage of this we continued forward until we reached the...