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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)
gomery, four light twelves, who was to take position just to the left of Carter; Fry, two rifles under command of Lieutenant Deas, to take position about one hundredo the right of Carter; and Reese, four rifles, about fifty yards to the right of Fry. Total, fourteen guns--two of Fry's guns having been sent, the day previous, on Fry's guns having been sent, the day previous, on detached service, under the immediate command of Captain Fry. As we ascended the hill, just before entering the long, narrow and difficult space between the woodsCaptain Fry. As we ascended the hill, just before entering the long, narrow and difficult space between the woods on our left and line of works on our right, through which the column had to pass in order that the batteries might get into their respective positions, one of Montgleft, I returned along the line of works by which we had come, in order to place Fry's two guns under Lieutenant Deas, and thence to Reese's battery. Having seen Re that part of the line, together with Montgomery's three guns, Carter's four and Fry's two. Captain Carter, as I afterwards understood from some of the men who had e