Seventeenth Maine Regiment at Gettysburg (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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First Corps, Doubleday (second and Fifth Maine Batteries and Sixteenth Maine Regiment with this Corps), Marsh Creek, 5 1-2 miles south. Second Corps, Hancock (nineteenth Maine Regiment with this Corps), Uniontown, 20 miles south. Third Corps, Sickles (third, Fourth, and Seventeenth Maine Regi ments with this Corps), Bridgeport, 12 miles south. Fifth Corps, Sykes (twentieth Maine Regiment with this Corps), Union Mills, 16 miles southeast. Sixth Corps, Sedgwick (fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Maine Regiments with this Corps), Manchester, 34 miles southeast. Eleventh Corps, Howard, Emmitsburg, 10 miles south. Twelfth Corps, Slocum (tenth Maine Battalion at Corps headquarters), Littlestown, 10 miles southeast. Buford's cavalry, two brigades, Gamble's and Devin's, at Gettysburg. Merritt's (regular) Brigade, Mechan icstown, 18 miles south. Gregg's cavalry (first Maine Regiment with Gregg), Westminster, 34 miles southeast. Kil patrick's cavalry, Hanover, 14 miles east.

Dow's Sixth Maine Battery was with the Fourth Brigade of the reserve artillery, at Taneytown, 12 miles south. Co. D, 2d U. S. Sharpshooters was with the Third Corps.

General Meade's orders for July lst were, for the First and Eleventh corps to move to Gettysburg, the Third to Emmits burg, the Second to Taneytown, the Fifth to Hanover, and the Twelfth to Two Taverns the Sixth was left at Manchester.

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