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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 30: Pickett's charge. (search)
Chapter 30: Pickett's charge. The infantry is moved up nearer to the edge of the Ridge. A blast of air lifts the smoke. Here they come! Here they come! Here comes the infantry, is heard on every side. Pickett's splendid division moves out to cross the interval between the two low-lying ridges occupied by the opposing armies, on that magnificent charge which has extorted the admiratiunqualified, of their foes and which won the position aimed for but could not hold it. After Pickett's division crosses the Emmetsburg Road and comes sweeping up the slope, they still bear everythThis will certify that Corporal Joseph DeCastro, Co. I, 19th regt. Mass Vols. in the attack of Pickett's division on Gibbon's Division, Second Corps, U. S. Army, on July 3rd, 1863, at Gettysburg, Palight, however,—a flood of unarmed, defenseless men had poured through—they were the remnant of Pickett's gallant men who had abandoned that nearly invincible charge. And then the victors cheered
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 31: after the battle. (search)
e of them and halted just at the spot, as it proved, where they could hurl, with full effect, right against the front of Pickett's column which had actually pierced our lines and gained its objective point. They were the only troops in prompt strik fiercest. It was terribly mangled by a solid shot. Sergt. McGinnis, of Co. K, received his wound just as the ine of Pickett's men broke, under the terrible fire trained upon them. McGinnis could not restrain his enthusiasm at the spectacle, an from the infantry troops. After cessation of the cannonade, and with a clump of small oaks as the objective point, General Pickett's Division, as was afterward ascertained, was pushed forward to capture that point, then held by General Alex. S. Weand put my own regiment instantly in motion, and side by side the two regiments went up and filled the gap. The head of Pickett's column was just breaking through the little oak grove. We were just in time to meet them, and became in this way the
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Index. (search)
.................................... 293 Perkins, Theodore,.............................................. 187 Penniman, Walter S. (K),......................................... 169, 186 Petersburg, Va.,.......................... 115, 321, 333, 334, 344, 346, 363 Pettitt's Battery,................................................... 227 Philbrick, Major,..................................................... 137 Phillips, James H. H.,............................................... 188 Pickett's Charge,.................................................. 238 Pike, James,.......................................................... 332 Pike, Robert E.,...................................................... 358 Pillsbury, Joseph,..................................................... 140 Pillsbury, Richmond,.............................................. 285 Pleasant Valley, Md.,......................................... 127, 130, 256 Pleasanton, General,.............................