The War in Their Words: “I Felt A Sharp Sting”

A Maine Artilleryman describes his July 1, 1863 Gettysburg wounding hen Charles O. Hunt, a lieutenant in Captain Greenlief Stevens’ 5th Maine Light Artillery, marched into Gettysburg, Pa., with the Army of the Potomac’s 1st Corps in the summer of 1863, it must have felt like a homecoming. Hunt was from Gorham, Maine, but after …

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