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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.38 (search)
ry 7, 1904.] The story of it as told by a member of his staff. Captain Robert A. Bright. Statement as to where the General was during the Charge.—Why the Colonel Lewis Williams, of the 1st Virginia Regiment, came to me and said: Captain Bright, I wish to ride my mare up, and I answered: Colonel Williams, you cannot doeral Longstreet answered: I would, Colonel Freemantle; the charge is over. Captain Bright, ride to General Pickett, and tell him what you have heard me say to Colone I started and when my horse had made two leaps, General Longstreet called: Captain Bright! I checked my horse, and turned half around in my saddle to hear, and thisain Symington with the same order, in a very few moments, and last he said: Captain Bright, you go, and I was about the same distance behind Symington that he was behys turning from Virginia to Washington as though he wanted that city. Very respectfully, Ro. A. Bright, Formerly on the staff of Major-General George E. Pickett
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), North Carolina and Virginia. (search)
heights, this was the only organized body which entered the works of the enemy. Further, as to what Pickett's Division did or accomplished at Gettysburg, reference may be made to the communication of Thos. R. Friend in the Times-Dispatch of November 24, 1903, both as to the action of the division and the presence in the assault of General Pickett himself in the front. Mr. Friend states implicitly that he was with General Pickett throughout the same. See also the testimony of Captain Robert A. Bright, of his staff, ante, p. 228. Some years since there also appeared in an issue of the same paper the emphatic testimony of a number of Confederate States officers as to these points in issue, corroborating what is stated herein.—Ed. General Long, who was also on General Lee's staff, .after describing the order in which the charge was made, says: But the tempest of fire which burst upon the devoted column quickly reduced its strength. The troops of Heth's Division (Pettigr