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Col. B. D. Fry, Thirteenth Alabama, commanding, General Heth said: ‘This brigade, the heroes of Chancellorsville, fully maintained its hard-won and wellde-served reputation.’
During the night and the next day Archer's brigade was in position on the right of Hill's corps.
This success and the partial successes of Longstreet's and Ewell's corps on the 2d, determined General Lee to continue the assault the next day, the enemy in the meantime having strengthened his lines with earthworks.
On the afternoon of the 3d of July, after the necessary preparation had been completed, the assault on Cemetery hill was made by Pickett's and Heth's divisions in the front line, Heth's division commanded by Brigadier-General Pettigrew (General Heth having been wounded in the affair of the 1st). The glory and fame of this charge, one of the most famous of modern times, belong alike to Pickett's and Heth's divisions.
They went forward supported by Wilcox's brigade of Anderson's-division, and Lane's and Scales' brigades of Pender's division, under Major-General Trimble, the gallant Pender having received a mortal wound.
Lieut.--Col. S. G. Shepard, commanding the Seventh Tennessee, who succeeded to the command of Archer's brigade after the capture of Colonel Fry, in an official report stated that his brigade was on the right of Heth's division in the following order: First Tennessee on the right, next the Thirteenth Alabama, next the Fourteenth Tennessee, on its left the Seventh Tennessee, and the Fifth Alabama battalion on the left of the brigade.
The brigade was on the left of Pickett's division.
The enemy reserved his fire until the line was in close range, and then opened a terrible and well-directed volley.
‘Within 180 or 200 yards of his works,’ said the brigade commander, ‘we came upon a lane running between two fences made of stout posts and plank.
This was a great obstruction to us, but the men rushed over as ’
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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