GDG- Charles McCurdy

[Ginny Gage]

>From the reminiscences of Charles McCurdy:

Soon after noon on the third day the most terrific cannonading that we had
heard began. As soon as it slackened we came up from the cellar, and Father
took me with him to the third floor of our house from which one could look
from a dormer window towards the scene of the firing a mile or more away.  A
dense volume of smoke hid everything from view, but we could plainly hear
through this screen, the Rebel yell and the answering Union cheer.  Soon
everything became still, and although we did not know it, the battle had
ended with victory for the Union army. At night camp fires twinkled along
Seminary Ridge, marking the Confederate line of battle.  But only to
deceive.  Already they had begun their awful retreat to the Potomac,
carrying with them over rough and stony roads thousands of wounded, subject
to all the horrors of such a journey.  On the morning of the 4th of July we
were still apprehensive, for the report went about among the citizens that
the town was to be shelled. The military authorities soon learned that the
danger was past‹the battle fought and won.

Ginny Gage