American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

Andersons' division now held the sunken road, was
clawing at the remnants of several union formations.
More and more artillery wheeled onto the field. The
town was now almost taken, a few routed units to deal
with. The major fighting was now on the Hill itself,
with swirling fighting from end to end, neither side
able to win a significant margin. And always more
grey-coated soldiers appearing to take the place of
those lost......




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> 520PM
> Genral Cutler personally came forward and ordered
> the 76NY back to reserve, Cpl Adams was glad because
> new Rebs had come up and he was tired but just as
> they started back the Rebs opened up The men
> quickened their pace but Pvt French couldnt keep up
> with his bad leg and fell behind and then got hit in
> the other leg with a musket ball and went down. Cpl
> Adams saw him fall, turned and ran back ,hefted the
> 160 Lb French over his shoulder and retreated with
> the rest of the men, French would survive the war
> and moved to Buffalo where he became the owner of a
> large dry goods store. As a tribute to Johnny Adams,
> any member of the old group who made it to Buffalo
> got a free shirt and pants.
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> The 107th NewYork was taking heavy fire, They were
> on the eastern shoulder of Cemetery Hill. Cpl Hadley
> made sure his group maintained formation and
> returned fire. Cpt Gage ran over
> " prepare to attack"
> The men rose, as units quickly formed on each side
> of the 107th,
> "forward to assualt" Capt Gage bellered
> the 107th advanced towards a large group of Reb guns
> defended by 400 infantry. It looked bad-it was.
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> Just as they prepared to lower bayonets all hell
> broke loose!!! Patrick Callahan got it in the upper
> arm and dropped his weapon, Harlan Newcombe had his
> right ear ripped off but didnt even know it. Henry
> Rasco was hit three times in the chest and stomach
> and perished. They were upon the guns but it was too
> much and the attack failed,
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> The 54th NY finally at the personal urging of
> General Von Gilsa and MG Barlow rallied a bit and
> climbed to t he top of Cemetery Hill to guard a
> large gun emplacement. Then General Howard himself
> appeared. He was terribly disshelved and seemed
> surprised to find XIth Corp troops here.
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Colonel Tony Best
Army of Georgia