Posted on 07/03/2008 6:28:24 AM PDT by mware
3rd Day- Pickett's Charge
On the outskirts of Gettysburg, at 1 p.m., 170 Confederate cannons open fired. The Union was positioned in Cemetery Ridge with only a stonewall for protection. The Union returned fire. About 2:30 p.m. the Federally slowed there rate of fire and fooled the rebels, to believing they were out of ammunition. Gen. Picket went to see Gen. Longstreet and asked, " General shall I advance"? Longstreet responded with his head bowed and raised his hand. The command was given. " Charge the enemy and remember Old Virginia" Picket said as he lead 12,000 rebels toward the Union. By this time the 20th Maine joined General Hanncok at the center of the ridge. The Union first watched at the extraordinary sight. Picket converged the line to focus on the Union position called the Angle. The Confederates neared and the Union were able to hold back the Confederates, but under the lead of General Lewis Armstead the rebels were able to break through the Angle. Soon the rebels that reached the Angle were forced back back across the field in retreat. General Picket who was standing in the distance exclaimed, " What's happened to my boys"? When Picket returned to General Lee, he was ordered to prepare a possible Union counterattack. Picket then said, " General Lee I have no division"
Stuart's Calvary Encounters Gregg Pronsworth Near Little Round Top July 3, 1863 12:00 Stuart with four brigades had arrived at Gettysburg area July, 2nd. Lee charged Stuart flanking the Union and captures Cem. Ridge. The two cavalry forces met three miles east of Gettysburg near Rummel farm about norht. Stuart deplated his brigdesss in the woods on Cress Ridge. The fighting then begain. Stuart sent the 1st Virgins charging into the Union cavalry. Stuart ordered most of Hamptons and Lees Brigades into a column attack Greggs position. The Confederate ran headlong in to the Union. Eventually the Confederates cut off and attacked from al sides. Both sides clamed
good points.
I should have qualified that by adding: "Except for a superior field Commanders at the begining of the war"
bttt
According to Shelby Foote, one side named the battles after physical geographic featrues near the battle, while the other named the battle after cites near the battle.
digging in the park will extend his vacation. The Rangers frown on those activities.
Even better. That would serve him right for rubbing-in his vacation to the battlefield.
Chamberlain was significant for a number of reasons. One of the more obscure is that he is considered the last man to die from wounds received in the Civil War. He died in 1914 (not 1913) and his death was attributed to his wound at Petersburg.
I’ve seen it before.
The tree was in the center of the Mule Shoe Salient at the battle of Spotsylvania Court House.
Read some on-line accounts of the battle or pick up “Bloody Roads South” by Noah Trudeau.
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Today I think again of my cousin Jim from Fauquier County, who marched with the Eighth Virginia and became one of the “pink mist” boys, forever nineteen.
He was a dear young man; I have read and touched his charming letters. His brother, a captain, had to go back home and tell their mother that he had lost her baby during Pickett’s Charge.
Courageous men they were. That is 3 o’clock in the morning courage, to walk across that field.
” the Federally slowed there rate of fire “
huh?
The more often I stand on either Cemetery and Seminary ridges the more in awe I become of those men.
My brother and I are heading up there tomorrow for the reenactments.
The “what if Jackson were at Gettysburg?” questions are fascinating. Ewell and Longstreet have been convenient scapegoats for those trying to absolve Lee of any responsibility for the defeat.
LOL. Great analogy.
I was at the Old Court House museum a few weeks ago in Winchester, VA and the lady who worked there assumed I was from the south because I reffered to the battle of Sharpsburg instead of Antietam.
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