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garden on the Mount spent of Olives, the night near Jerusalem, previous to where His cruciJesus xion. - EA ee a BURG, BATTLE OF, one| Tht ohhh, important battles of Civil War. Fought July 1, 2, 3 in 1863 ' at Gettysburg, Pa., between the Federal Army of the Potomac, under Gen.|the ' Meade and the Confederate Army of| Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert|of B. Lee. After the defeat of the Federals ' at Chancellorsville the two armies were on opposite sides of the Rappahannock River. Lee had formed three under Generals Hill, Long street and Ewell, to invade the north a second time, hoping to force Grant to raise the siege of Vicksburg to protect Washington and the northern cities. - ¥ On June 5 with 75,000 men he cro ed _ the Potomac and entered Pennsylvania. _ Tho rest of his army had joined him by June 25. On June 13 General Hooker started after him with 85,000 men but owing to trouble with General Halleck at Washington was relieved of command by General George Meade. On July 1, Hill’s cavalry came in contact with Buford west of Gettysburg and being reinforced, the battle began. Gettysburg is 7 miles from the Maryland border. To the west is Seminary Ridge extending north and _ south. To the east is Mi ionary Ridge and then Cemetery Ridge ending with Cemetery, and Culp’s Hills. To the south is Little Round Top and Round Top, and in the center lies the town. The Army of the Potomac comprised 7 corps. 1. Reynolds, later Double day. 2. Hancock, later Gibbon. 3. Sickles. 5. Meade. 6. Sedgwick. 11. Howard: 12. Slocum. An Army of 82,000 infantry and artillery and Pleasant on’s 12,000 cavalry. Guns 410. On McPherson’s Ridge sloping west from Seminary Ridge, Buford and Heth were in contact. Reynolds’ 1st corps held its own against superior numbers for two hours when Reynolds was killed. All day west and north the battle raged, the Federals losing. Their strong point along Cemetery Hill was in peril. Meade and Lee now brought up their main bodies. The Federal position on the second day was in the form of a hook, Culp’s Hill the barb, and extending over Round Top and Little Round Top and some peaks the far left. The 3rd corps under Sickles was a little ahead of the Federal line along the Emmitsburg Road, the |center at Peach Orchard, left to the | ‘Devil’s Den’, Lee held most of Seminary Ridge. Longstrect the right, Hill center and Hwell the left, stretching to a point opposite Culp’s Hill. At4 a.m. on July 2 Long street attacked Sickles left, but the Federal ltnes were not broken. Ewell struck at the Federal right and fighting into the night got within Federal lines but 8 bg tries out a ae lala On the third day after artillery prepar the|tion Lee attacked the Federal center. | Pickett led with 5000 men. Wilcox with |5000 on the right and Petti grew with same number on the left. The Federal artillery flung back the forces Wilcox and Petti grew, but Pickett | dashed forward and broke the Federal | line to be finally pide case c | order having ost heavily, Stua M4 corps|cavalry failed in their attack on the Federals right and the battle was los$ rhe Confederates. The Federals lost in the battle 3,072 killed, 14,497 wounded and 5,434 captured or mi ing. The Confederates had 2,592 killed, 12,709 wounded and 5,150 captured or mi ing. November 19, 1863 the battlefield was consecrated as a National Soldiers Oemetery. E.), town, Rhine province, Pru ia; fountain of boiling water found especially in Iceland, but also N. America, New Zealand, Tibet, and the Azores; in Iceland they number c. 100, and are all in a plain some 30 miles. N.W. of Mount Hecla. In the Yellow stone regions of Wyoming the jets rise to a height of 90-250 ft., while in Auckland (N.Z.) three kinds are known—the intermittent, steam, and hot-water cisterns. G’s occur only in region where recent volcanic activity has been in evidence, and are caused by the filtration of water on to some heated center, probably a lava bed. ancient Oanaanite city, modern Tel Jezar, on S.W. border Ephraim; imahs stronghold. Excavations have een carried on and have revealed the existence of many cities here since the early dawn of civilization. 9° 14’ E.), town and oasis, trading center, in Sahara, N. Africa; formerly important; many ancient ruins; inhabitants chiefly Berbers and Arabs; dependency of Tripoli. Pop. c. 7000.