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July 1, 1863										 Matt Sullivan Union Soldier M. Sullivan. 03/26/06 English The first day started just as any momentous battle starts and has already taken many lives within the first few hours. General George G. Meade he predicts a decisive defeat over the Confederate army. We have a tremendous 83,200 or more solders when the south have an estimated 75,000 or more so we out rank then in soldiers. The General said that we might have a hard time dislodging the Confederates because they are trying to take control over the heights which would give them the clear advantage over us. I can hear the cannons being fired and people, soldiers are falling down all around me I just pray that in the end I get to go home. I have been lead into battle and was against my will for I was taken from my home to serve in this war. My father George and I had been taken together I am only 13 years old and my life might be cut short due to this and I still remember moms crys as we road off she looked as if her heart were ripped out of her body and saw the whole thing as it happened. Dad and I were separated so I have know idea of his whereabouts or even if he is still even alive. When this is all over I hope that our family can come back together again. It is the end of the first day of fighting and there are dead bodies everywhere you step you can still smell the flesh of the corps and it makes me want to vomit. As the men tally up the casualties toll they found it to be near 18,000 men of the Union and about 25,000 Confederates. The only death that I will worrie about is dads I’ll pray for his safety and for this nightmare to end.

July 2, 1863 Union Soldier M. Sullivan. During the evening to the next morning the rest of the infantry arrived to aid us in are pursuit to be victory against the southern states. The night was hard to stand and longer than any other night of the year of not knowing about my family my father, there was know sign of my father which made me unhappy another thing to add to my problems. We started in the morning as the second day started still happy to be alive but sometimes I wonder if I would be better of dead. I also wonder if I died were would I be buried or just in a nameless grave with a thousand others. During the fight I though I saw him, my father fighting but I was not sure and I was in no position to move and check which had laid heavily on my heart. All I could think about was my father to the point that it engulfed me I had to know who it was so I decided to go and see. So I ran across getting closer and closer and when I got to him everything got dark and I was lost. I had a dream that I was falling and I was losing my way and than I felt a shock and I was pulled back but I stared to fall again than I was shocked even harder and had awoken to find that I was on a table and I had been shot and they had amputated my left arm ‘good thing I was a righty’ but that’s not how I felt at that moment. After a second I realized how did I get there it was my father who had taken me to the medical aria and had gone back to fight. I herd many people had died that day and I was thankful to be alive.

July 3, 1863 Union Soldier M. Sullivan They had told me I did not have to get out and fight but I wanted to we were told by the general to give it all we got and the battle could end today. I had a hard time but I wanted to help so I had given it all I could. After hours of fighting I had found out that my father had died and I had survived an when the battle ended we had won and we had gotten a major win for the Union. At the battles end the Union had lost 3,155 and the Confederation had lost 3,500 and I had left saddened by the fact of my family and the cost of this war was not fair to anyone. When I had returned I had to tell mom that dad had died in the war. She cryed and I wanted to cry to but had to be strong for mom. The north had won and now the slaves had been released and my life had slowly gotten back to normal. And this is my recollection of the Battle of Gettysburg by a soldier.