The Project Gutenberg eBook, Gettysburg, by Elsie Singmaster This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. Title: Gettysburg Stories of the Red Harvest and the Aftermath Author: Elsie Singmaster Release Date: March 14, 2017 [eBook #54358] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GETTYSBURG*** E-text prepared by Barry Abrahamsen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/gettysburgstorie00insing By Elsie Singmaster GETTYSBURG. Illustrated WHEN SARAH WENT TO SCHOOL. Illustrated. 12mo, $1.00. WHEN SARAH SAVED THE DAY. Illustrated. 12mo, $1.00. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Boston and New York GETTYSBURG A BATTLE IS TO BE FOUGHT HERE GETTYSBURG STORIES OF THE RED HARVEST AND THE AFTERMATH BY ELSIE SINGMASTER Publisher's Logo BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 1913 COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS COPYRIGHT, 1907, 1909, 1911 AND 1912, BY HARPER AND BROTHERS COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY THE S. S. McCLURE CO. COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY ELSIE SINGMASTER LEWARS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published April 1913 TO MY FATHER JOHN ALDEN SINGMASTER, D.D. THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED 1863-1913 Four Score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty; and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Gettysburg, November 19, 1863. CONTENTS Page I. July the First 1 II. The Home-Coming 21 III. Victory 45 IV. The Battle-ground 65 V. Gunner Criswell 87 VI. The Substitute 109 VII. The Retreat 133 VIII. The Great Day 157 IX. Mary Bowman 181 Note. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors for permission to reprint in this volume chapters that first appeared in Harper's, Lippincott's, McClure's, and Scribner's Magazines. ILLUSTRATIONS A Battle is to be fought here Frontispiece 13 From the drawing by Sidney H. Riesenberg, reproduced by courtesy of Harper and Brothers "I can't stand it," he said thickly 26 From the drawing by Frederic Dorr Steele reproduced by courtesy of McClure's Magazine He stood where Lincoln had stood: 104 From the drawing by C. E. Chambers, reproduced by courtesy of Harper and Brothers They saw the Strange Old Figure on the Porch 152 From the drawing by F. Walter Taylor, reproduced by courtesy of Chas. Scribner's Sons