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July 5, 2013 • Milwaukee Post • 7 Gettysburg: Recalling Wisconsin's role continued from Page 6 Around 1 p.m. Lee sought to weaken the Union line with the largest Confederate artillery barrage of the war, followed by an infantry assault on the center of the line. As many as 170 rebel cannons fired on Union soldiers for about two hours. Union artillery held their fire for a time, and then responded with only 80 cannons. Battery B of the 4th U.S. Artillery, commanded by 21year-old 1st Lt. Alonzo Cushing of Delafield lost four of its six cannons in the rebel barrage – two cannons were destroyed by direct hits. The battery had no long-range ammunition, and Cushing himself was wounded in the shoulder and groin. In spite of this, Cushing brought his guns to the front lines of Brig. Gen. Alexander Webb's Philadelphia Brigade to meet the 12,500 Confederates advancing to a bend in the Union line – a sharp turn in a stone fence known as the "Angle" – as part of "Pickett's Charge." "I'll give them one more shot," Cushing told Battery B 1st Sgt. Frederick Fuger, as he pulled the lanyard. The roar of the cannon masked the sound of the Confederate bullet that took his life at that moment. Wisconsin state Rep. Ron Kind and Jim Sensenbrenner have introduced legislation to award Cushing the Medal of Honor. The day's most intense fighting centered on Cushing's ruined battery in front of the Angle. The Confederates succeeded in breaching the Union line at the Angle, but the gain was only temporary and the rebel attack was driven back. Lt. Frank Haskell of Madison, aide to 2nd Division, I Corps commander Maj. Gen. John Gibbon – who had commanded the Iron Brigade during the battles of Brawner's Farm, Second Battle of Bull Run, and South Mountain – recognized the need for the 72nd Pennsylvania Regiment, part of the Philadelphia Brigade, to charge the rebels and ordered the color bearer forward. "The color sergeant of the 72nd Pennsylvania, grasping the stump of the severed lance in both hands, waved the flag above his head and rushed towards the wall" Haskell wrote. "Almost halfway to the wall, down go color bearer and color to the ground; the gallant sergeant is dead. The line springs ... with a great roar, heaves forward its maddened load-men, arms, smoke, fire, a fighting mass. It rolls to the wall. A moment ensues of thrusts, yells, blows, shots and undistinguishable conflict..." Unable to dislodge Union troops from their positions and suffering heavy losses, the Confederates withdrew, and the next day departed Pennsylvania en route to Confederate territory . The human toll at Gettysburg was staggering. The Union suffered 23,055 casualties – 3,155 killed and 5,369 captured or missing in action. Of that number, Wisconsin soldiers accounted for 150 killed, 551 wounded and 170 captured or missing. The losses were steeper for the Confederates – an estimated 28,000 casualties including 4,708 killed and 5,830 captured or missing. Haskell was struck by the carnage wrought by the savage fighting. "Oh, sorrowful was the sight to see so many wounded," he wrote. "The whole neighborhood in rear of the field became one vast hospital of miles in extent ... Every conceivable wound that iron and lead can make – blunt or sharp, bullet, ball and shell, piercing, bruising, tearing – was there, sometimes so light that a bandage and cold water could restore the soldier to the ranks again; sometimes so severe that the poor victim in his hopeless pain, remediless save by the only panacea for all mortal suffering, invoked that." Dawes reflected on the battle in a letter to Mary Gates. "I am entirely safe through the first three days of these terrible days of the bloody struggle," he wrote. "On July 1st, our corps was thrown in front, unsupported and almost annihilated. My regiment was detached from the brigade and we charged upon and captured the second Mississippi rebel regiment. Their battle flag is now at General Meade's headquarters... "The Sixth has lost so far 160 men," Dawes continued. "Since the first day we have lost only six. O, Mary, it is sad to look now at our shattered band of devoted men. Only four field officers in the brigade have escaped and I am one of them. I have no opportunity to say more now or write to anyone else. Tell mother I am safe. God has been kind to me and I think he will spare me." The Confederate withdrawal marked the limit of their Northern invasion. The outcome of the Battle of Gettysburg, combined with the Union victory at Vicksburg on July 4, doomed the Confederacy's hopes of gaining official European recognition. Gettysburg also marked a turning point for the Iron Brigade. Pennsylvania regiments fortified the brigade, which suffered 96 killed, 372 wounded and 127 captured or wounded at Gettysburg. While the Iron Brigade would continue to serve gallantly, its distinction as a western brigade was gone. Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address, given at the dedication of part of the battlefield as a final resting place for the battle's fallen, captured the enormity of the battle. "(I)n a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground," Lincoln said. "The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract ... It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain." (Story courtesy of the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs.) 233161093 HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! 9th & Oklahoma ATM 933 W. OKLAHOMA July 4th 8am-9pm Home of the Lucky Lotto $1,000,000 & $50,000 Winner! 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