He advanced steadily on Carlisle, and in the afternoon we heard artillery from the south.
I looked at my military map, and calculated the distance. The result was that I said:—
“General, those guns are at a place called Gettysburg on this map.”
“Impossible!” was his reply. “They can not be fighting there. You are certainly wrong.”
But I was right.
Those guns were the signal of the “First day’s fight at Gettysburg.”
XIX. — CARLISLE BY FIRELIGHT.
It can not be said that we accomplished very enormous results at Carlisle. The enemy defended it bravely.