Pickett's Charge: “Hold Your Fire, Boys—They are Not Near Enough Yet”
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One of the top correspondents in the American press during the Civil War, the Boston Journal's Charles Carleton Coffin, arrived at Gettysburg after the first day's fighting. His description of Pickett's Charge, from the Union side, is vivid, poetic prose.
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