THE SECOND DAY AT GETTYSBURG.

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detached from the latter and hurried them to the summit [see p. 298]. Thepassage of the six guns through the roadless woods and amongst the rockswas marvelous. Under ordinary circumstances it would have been consid-ered an impossible feat, but the eager-ness of the men to get into action withtheir comrades of the infantry, and theskillful driving, brought them withoutdelay to the very summit, where theywent immediately into battle. Theywere barely in time, for the enemywere also climbing the hill. A close andbloody hand-to-hand struggle ensued,which left both Round Tops in our pos-session. Weed and Hazlett were killed,and Vincent was mortally wounded —all young men of great promise. Weedhad served with much distinction asan artillerist in the Peninsular, SecondBull Run, and Antietam campaigns, hadbecome chief of artillery of his armycorps, and at Chancellorsville showeds uch special aptitude and fitness for large artillery commands that he wasiitunediately promoted from captain to brigadier-general and transferred tothe infantry. Hazlett was killed whilstbending over his former chief, to receivehis last message. Lieutenant Ritten-house efficiently commanded the batteryduring the remainder of the battle.

The enemy, however, clung to the woodsa, ud rocks at the base of Round Top, car-ded Devil’s Den and its woods, and cap-tured three of Smith’s guns, who, however,effectively deprived the enemy of theirUse by carrying off all the implements.

The breaking in of the Peach Orcharda Ugle exposed the flanks of the batteries°u its crests, which retired firing, in orderto cover the retreat of the infantry. Many B1!I(;AI)IEn . GKN , :ItAL SA „ UEL K . zook, comma™™tettus of different batteries bad to be aban- THE TIIIKI > brigade of caldwell’s division,

pW ^ . KILLED IN THE “ WHEAT-FIELD ” JULY 2.

tu uea. because ot the destruction ot their from a photograph.

COLONEL GEORGE L. WILLARD, COMMANDING THETHIRD BRIGADE OF HAYS’S DIVISION, KILLEDON JULY 2. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.

alt UClr ’ Wl10 ’ 011 k eai ’i ll g my few words of explanationth -° ll t ^ le Position, moved at once to the hill-top. AboutFiftl ^ I(le ^B' M t Lieutenant Charles E. Hazlett of thejj _ Artillery, with his battery of rifled cannon, arrived,a o- eoill l>rchendcd the situation instantly and plantedt haJ 1 + 0U Runrm it of the hill. He spoke to the effect^viti .°ugh he could do little execution on the enemy^ his suns, he could aid in giving confidence to thehtry, and that his battery was of no consequence

whatever compared with holding the position. Hestaid there till he was killed. I was wounded with amusket-ball while talking with Lieutenant Hazlett onthe hill, but not seriously ; and, seeing the positionsaved while the whole line to the right and front of uswas yielding and melting away under the enemy’s fireand advance, I left the hill to rejoin General Meade near the center of the field, where a new crisis was athand.” Editors.