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disappeared in the smoke of the batteries before them. They were 
watched with breathless excitement by their comrades of the artillery 
behind them. The fate of the campaign hong on their failure or 
success. For five minutes the struggle in the smoke continued, then 
the event had culminated, and they seemed to melt away, and only 
disorganised stragglers pursued by a moderate fire were coming back.” 
Lee watched it all among Alexander’s guns, and perhaps realised, as he 
saw such an army as he could never hope to lead again broken, that his 
cause was lost. 
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (THIRD DAY).—3rd July, 1863. 
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The Confederate batteries had produced destructive effect amongst 
the Federal guns, but the infantry were able to gain cover behind walls 
and in the broken ground and suffered less. 
Two batteries, where the Confederate fire had focussed, were prac¬ 
tically destroyed. Doubleday’s narrative states that Cushing, who was 
in command of one of these, being mortally wounded in both thighs, 
ran his last serviceable gun down to the fence as Pickett’s advance came 
very close, and shouted to his General, “ Webb, I will give them one 
more shot! ” “ At the moment of the last discharge he called out 
f good-bye ’ and fell down dead.” 
General Hunt, who so ably commanded the Federal artillery, has 
written an account of this day’s fighting, which is extremely interest- 
