Clad almost in rags, covered with dust, riding wildly, pell-mell down the hill toward our home! Shouting, yelling most unearthly, cursing, brandishing their revolvers, and firing right and left.
—Tillie Pierce, a fourteen-year-old, recalls when the Confederate “rebels” came to Gettysburg
(Source: eyewitnesstohistory.com)
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