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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Steuart's brigade at the battle of Gettysburg.--a narrative by Rev. Randolph H. McKim, D. D., late First Lieutenant and Aide-de-camp, Confederate army. (search)
ard describes the vacated works as situated between McAllister's Mill and Culp's Hill. Fronm these works part of the Twelfth corps had been withdrawn to reinforce Meade's left But these were not the works occupied by Steuart's brigade, whose charge was made on Culp's Htill itself, to the north of Spangler's Spring. Bates says: Pas might have proved disastrous to us had it not occurred at so late an hour. And Swinton declares it was a position which, if held by him, would enable him to take Meade's entire line in reverse. Bates is of the same opinion: Had he known the advantage which was open to him, and all that we now know, he might, with the troops he It remains, however, no less a proud memory for the officers and men of the Third brigade, that their prowess gained for the Confederate general a position where Meade's entire line might have been taken in reverse. But if the Confederates did not realize what they had gained, the Federals were fully aware what they had lost.
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