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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 2 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 2: Lee's invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. (search)
ing Generals Armistead and Kemper, scaled Cemetery Hill, burst through Hancock's line, and planted the Confederate flag on a stone wall. In this onset they drove back a portion of General Webb's brigade. Sixty-ninth, Seventy-first, and Seventy-Second Pennsylvania. these were soon rallied, and, with other troops, the brigades of Hall and Harrow; the one hundred and fifty-first Pennsylvania, and Twentieth New York, under Colonel Gates; the Nineteenth Massachusetts, Colonel Devereux, and Wallon's Forty-Second New York. so effectively filled the breach that Pickett could go no further. At the same time Stannard's Vermont brigade, of Doubleday's division, opened a destructive fire on Pickett's flank, which broke the spirit of his men, and very soon twenty-five hundred of hem were prisoners, and with them twelve battle-flags were captured. General Garnett was killed, General Armistead was mortally wounded, and General Kemper was badly hurt. three-fourths of the gallant brigade wer