Other sources pertaining to Gettysburg:
-July 2 letter from 1st Lieutenant John Vliet to his employer Charles Collins (The Nassau County Historical Society Journal, ed. by Myron H. Luke, vol. 24, no. 3 (summer 1963), a reprint from the Long Island Historical Society.
-New York at Gettysburg, vol. II, pp. 688-689, Dedication of Monument, October 19, 1887.
-Souvenir of the Dedication of the Brooklyn 14th Regiment Monument, October 19, 1887, Henry Bessey, Printer, 1887.
-"Jenkins," Fourteenth Regiment N.Y.S.N.G., Writing and Fighting the Civil War, Soldier Correspondence of the New York Sunday Mercury, ed. by William B. Styple (Kearny, NJ: Belle Grove Publishing Company, 2000), pp. 196-207.
-A Letter from the 14th Regiment, N.Y.S.M., Near Gettysburg, July 5, Brooklyn Eagle, July 11, 1863, p.2.
-List of Casualties, Brooklyn Eagle, February 6, 1898.
-Civil War Newspaper Clippings,
http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/civil/infantry/84thInf/84thInfCWN.htm
As has been mentioned, the 14th Brooklyn played a prominent part in repulsing Brig. Gen. Davis' brigade of Mississippians around 10:20 a.m. on July 1. An excellent painting of this action is at the New York Military Museum in Saratoga. On the afternoon of July 1, the 14th Brooklyn occupied Oak Ridge and helped hold off the 3rd Alabama, 53rd North Carolina and 12th North Carolina from the brigades of O'Neal, Daniels and Iverson respectively. On July 2 and 3, they fought in the trenches on Culp's Hill. An excellent description of the 14th Brooklyn on Culp's Hill was given by Capt. George C. Collins in his book, Memoirs of the 149th Regt. N.Y. Vol Inft. (Reprint, Hamilton, NY: Edmonston Publishing, Inc., 1995), pp. 144-145. Collins wrote that the 14th was composed of "nearly all young boys" ... "young men possessed of so much courage and manliness."