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“THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURG

PROLOGUE
"The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters' tables now crowded each other as they died.”
― Charles Phillips, The Sharpshooter 1862-1864

“THE SHARPSHOOTER AT GETTYSBURG

As he grew more and more parched, waiting near the Emmitsburg Road that reached up to Gettysburg, Jake thought of peaches and water, until he saw movement across the way, near a pile of wooden fence rails. Rebel skirmishers had been using those rails as cover all morning. Jake set the rear trigger of his Sharps. He prepared to barely caress its forward trigger, the hair trigger, as he waited for a chance to kill someone Jake knew, in all likelihood, was not so different from himself.”
― Charles Phillips "The Sharpshooter 18621864"

“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you”
― Walt Whitman, Drum Taps