"STRONG MEN OF THE REGIMENT SOBBED LIKE CHILDREN": John Reynolds' I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863

The fighting on the first day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, was heavy, confusing, and decisive. Much of it considers of short and often separate simultaneous engagements or "firefights," a term the solders themselves often used to describe the close, vicious, and bloody combat. Well illus.