William Gamble (USA)
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- For other men with the same name, see William Gamble
Col. William Gamble commanded a Union cavalry brigade in General Buford's First Division that held Gettysburg on June 30. He was riding with one of his companies when they met the first elements of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and began the Battle of Gettysburg on the morning of July 1, 1863.
Gamble ordered his troops to dismount and take position behind a rail fence. While his troops were hopelessly outnumbered they held the Mississippi brigades from Gen A.P. Hill's corps for about seventy minutes while other Union troops were hurried up to join the fight. When it came time to retire Colonel Gamble's troops only needed to fall back some 250 yards to the rear, where the Union battle lines had formed.