"Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children": John Reynolds’ I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 (John Michael Priest - GC) battlewalk Jine the Cavalry

Jine the Cavalry

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000 casualties in its wake and the primary Southern army without its commander

Frederick Douglass was Black

credit Grant with influencing their own writing

"Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children": John Reynolds’ I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 (John Michael Priest - GC) battlewalk Jine the Cavalryby John Michael Priest The fighting on the first day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, was heavy, confusing, and decisive. Much of it consisted of short and often separate simultaneous engagements or firefights, a term the soldiers themselves often used to describe the close, vicious, and bloody combat. Several books have studied this important inaugural day of Gettysburg, but none have done so from the perspective of the rank and file of both armies. John