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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Pettigrew 's charge at Gettysburg . (search)
Pettigrew's charge at Gettysburg. By General B. D. Fry.
office of Southern Historical Society, Richmond, Va., December 8th, 1878. General B. D. Fry:
My Dear Fry — Although the battle of Gettysburg has during the year past been very much dGeneral B. D. Fry:
My Dear Fry — Although the battle of Gettysburg has during the year past been very much discussed, no proper exposition has been made of the part which was borne in the final charge by the brigades that day commanded by General Pettigrew.
Swinton and other writers have created the impression that Pickett's division alone reached, in orFry — Although the battle of Gettysburg has during the year past been very much discussed, no proper exposition has been made of the part which was borne in the final charge by the brigades that day commanded by General Pettigrew.
Swinton and other writers have created the impression that Pickett's division alone reached, in order of attack, the position held by the enemy.
You are the senior surviving brigadier who was with Pettigrew that day, and with you rests the opportunity to vindicate the good name of those troops and the fair fame of Pettigrew, who was one of the recting one. General Pettigrew, who I know was that day in the thickest of the fire, was killed in a skirmish a few days later.
No more earnest and gallant officer served in the Confederate army. B. D. Fry. Montgomery, Alabama, December 14th,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The captured guns at Spotsylvania Courthouse — Correction of General Ewell 's report. (search)