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The Star of Gettysburg

CHAPTER XII
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Then he uttered a cry of joy.
"More of our men are coming," he exclaimed, "and they are coming in heavy columns! I see their gray jackets and their tanned faces, and there, too, are the Invincibles.

Look, you can see the two colonels, riding side by side, and just behind them are St.Clair and Langdon!" Dalton's eyes followed Harry's pointing finger, and he saw.

It was a joyous sight, the masses of their own infantry coming down the road in perfect order, and their own personal friends not two hundred yards away.

But the Northern artillerymen had seen them too, and they began to send up the road a heavy fire which made many fall.

Ewell's men came on, unflinching, until they unlimbered their own guns and began to reply with fierce and rapid volleys.
The two youths sprang from the brush and rushed directly into the gray ranks of the Invincibles before they could be fired upon by mistake as enemies.


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