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known that I need not dwell upon it further than as it concerns my owncommand. The steady fire from McGilvery and Rittenhouse, on their right,caused Pickett’s men to “ drift” in the opposite direction, so that the weightof the assault fell upon the positions occupied by Hazard’s batteries. I hadcounted on an artillery cross-fire that would stop it before it reached ourlines, but, except a few shots here and there, Hazard’s batteries were silent

until the enemy came withincanister range. They had un-fortunately exhausted theirlong range projectiles duringthe cannonade, under theorders of their corps com-mander, and it was too lateto replace them. Had my

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instructions been followed here, asthey were by McGilvery, I do not be-lieve that Pickett’s division wouldkave reached our line. We lost not°nly the fire of one-third of our guns,kut the resulting cross-fire, whichn’ould have doubled its value. ThePrime fault was in the obscurity of°nr army regulations as to the artil-lery, and the absence of all regula-tions as to the proper relations of

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another. On this occasion it cost us much blood, many lives, and for a mo-ment endangered the integrity of our line if not the success of the battle.Soon after Pickett’s repulse, Wilcox’s, Wright’s, and Perry’s brigades werenioved forward, but under the fire of the fresh batteries in Gibbon’s front,°f McGilvery’s and Rittenhouse’s guns and the advance of two regiments ofStannard’s Vermont brigade, they soon fell back. The losses in the batteriesthe Second Corps were very heavy. Of the five battery commanders andIkeir successors on the field, Rorty, Cushing, and Woodruff were killed,and Milne was mortally and Sheldon severely wounded at their guns. Sogreat was the destruction of men and horses, that Cushing’s and Wood-Wff’s United States, and Brown’s and Arnold’s Rhode Island batteries wereConsolidated to form two serviceable ones.

The advance of the Confederate brigades to cover Pickett’s retreat showedkkat the enemy’s line opposite Cemetery Ridge was occupied by infantry.