Class Year
2015
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
12-24-2014
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
July 1, 1863. It is the first day of what will come to be known as the Battle of Gettysburg. Union forces, upon firing the first shot in the early morning hours of that Wednesday, were pushed back from their position near Herr’s Ridge and McPherson’s woods towards Cemetery Hill. Following orders given by Schurz, twenty-nine year old Brigadier General Francis Channing Barlow moved his division to the right of Schimmelfennig’s division and placed them on top of an elevated piece of land known as Blocher’s Knoll. The Eleventh Corps had yet to begin their retreat through Gettysburg, but they would soon after Barlow’s men extended the already thin line further north. [excerpt]
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Recommended Citation
Kirk, Brianna E., "A “friendship . . . born amidst the thunders of Gettysburg”: The Barlow- Gordon Incident" (2014). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 78.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/78
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