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The Star of Gettysburg

CHAPTER XII
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He saw on one road the Stars and Stripes and on the other the Stars and Bars.

He rushed back down the steps and met Reynolds.
"The devil is to pay!" he cried to Reynolds.
"How do we stand ?" "We can hold on until the arrival of the First Corps." Buford sprang on his horse, and the two generals, reckless of death, galloped among the men, encouraging the faint-hearted, reforming the lines, and crying to them to hold fast, that the whole Army of the Potomac was coming.
Harry felt the hardening of resistance.

The smoke was so dense that he could not see for a while the fresh troops coming to the help of Buford, but he knew nevertheless that they were there.

Then he heard a great shouting behind him, as Hill's men, coming upon the field, rushed into action.

But Jackson, the great Jackson whom he had followed through all his victories, the man who saw and understood everything, was not there! The genius of battle was for the moment on the other side.


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