General John B. Gordon
Second day at Gettysburg, 1863
July Third
General Lee ordered Longstreet to attack at daybreak on the morning of the third day.... He did not attack until two or three o’clock in the afternoon, the artillery opening at one.... Nothing that occurred at Gettysburg, nor anything that has been written since of that battle, has lessened the conviction that, had Lee’s orders been promptly and cordially executed, Meade’s centre on the third day would have been penetrated and the Union Army overwhelmingly defeated.
General John B. Gordon
Third day at Gettysburg, 1863
Joel Chandler Harris dies, 1908
July Fourth