General Lee, according to the testimony of Colonel Walter H. Taylor, Colonel C. S. Venable, and General A. L. Long, who were present when the order was given, ordered Longstreet to make the attack on the last day, with the three divisions of his corps, and two divisions of A. P. Hill’s corps, and that instead of doing so he sent fourteen thousand men to assail Meade’s army in his strong position, and heavily intrenched.
General John B. Gordon
Lee awaits the attack of Meade at Gettysburg throughout the fourth day, 1863
Vicksburg surrenders, 1863
Thomas Jefferson dies, 1826
July Fifth
Opinion, let me alone: I am not thine.
Prim creed, with categoric point, forbear
To feature me my Lord by rule and line.
Thou canst not measure Mistress Nature’s hair,
Not one sweet inch: nay, if thy sight is sharp,
Wouldst count the strings upon an angel’s harp?
Forbear, forbear.
Sidney Lanier
July Sixth
A golden pallor of voluptuous light
Filled the warm Southern night;
The moon, clear orbed, above the sylvan scene
Moved like a stately queen,
So rife with conscious beauty all the while,
What could she do but smile
At her perfect loveliness below,
Glassed in the tranquil flow
Of crystal fountains
And unruffled streams?
Paul Hamilton Hayne