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Brooke’s brigade charged through the woods and up the hill, where it encountered two of Semmes’ regiments at close range and drove them back. Fraser and Kelly secured Stony Hill and maintained pressure on Kershaw’s right, but Kelly met resistance from the 10th Georgia. Caldwell obtained permission from Barnes to advance Sweitzer’s brigade to aid his three brigades engaged beyond the Wheatfield. Confederate regiments along the southern border of Rose woods prepared for a general advance. See map for developments at 6:50 p.m.
“It wasn’t long till the Federal infantry in great force advanced to the rim of the bluff and began to pour lead down upon us; but they soon found out that bullets could go uphill … as well as downhill” – Private John Coxe, Company B, 2nd South Carolina.
“We fire from big rock into bit of timber dark with smoke” – B. F. Powelson, Company K, 140th Pennsylvania.
“I ordered a retreat to the buildings at Rose’s” – Brigadier General Joseph B. Kershaw.
“We came suddenly under a very severe fire from the front, most probably another line of battle of the enemy [10th Georgia]” – Lieutenant James J. Smith, 69th New York.
“The brigade … reached its most advanced position on the crest of a small hill” – Lieutenant Colonel John Fraser.
“We came to a ledge of rocks; here a number of the rebels threw down their arms and surrendered” – Captain John W. Reynolds, 145th Pennsylvania.
“The men with much difficulty clambered up the rocky steep, but as they appeared upon the crest of the hill, the enemy, drawn up in readiness just beyond, within pistol range, opened upon them a withering fire” – Lieutenant Winthrop D. Sheldon, Company H, 27th Connecticut.
“We charged upon the enemy, driving him before us, capturing some prisoners, and finally carrying the crest of the hill” – Lieutenant Colonel Richards McMichael, 53rd Pennsylvania.
“We chased the rebels up the rocks, and mounted after them” – 64th New York, History of Cattaraugus County.
“We made for the crest of the bluff in front occupied by the enemy and got there, lying down and firing” – Private George Whipple, Company F, 64th New York.
“The regiment … advanced rapidly up the ascent, driving [the enemy] from his position” – Colonel William P. Baily, 2nd Delaware.
“General Caldwell rode up in haste and …. asked if I would give him the support of my brigade. … In a few moments General Barnes came and repeated what General Caldwell had said to him and told me to take the brigade in” – Colonel Jacob B. Sweitzer.
Sources:
-The Battle of Gettysburg, John Coxe, Confederate Veteran magazine, vol. 21 (1913), p. 434.
-History of Company K of the 140th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, by B. F. Powelson, Steubenville, OH: 1906.
-Kershaw’s Brigade at Gettysburg, by J. B. Kershaw, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 3:337.
-Official Reports of Lt. James J. Smith, Lt. Col. John Fraser (commanding brigade), Capt. John W. Reynolds, Lt. Col. Richards McMichael, Col. William P. Baily.
-“The Twenty Seventh” [Connecticut], A Regimental History, by Winthrop D. Sheldon, New Haven, CT: Morris & Benham, 1866.
-History of Cattaraugus County, New York, comp. by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia: Press of J. B. Lippincott, 1879.
-George W. Whipple Gettysburg Memories, Private, Co. F, 64th N.Y.V., 8th Georgia Infantry Webpage, http://home.earthlink.net/~larsrbl/whipple.htm, 08/30/2001.
-Supplemental Report of Col. Jacob B. Sweitzer, Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, ed. by Janet B. Hewitt, Noah A. Trudeau, Bryce A. Suderow, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1995.
“It wasn’t long till the Federal infantry in great force advanced to the rim of the bluff and began to pour lead down upon us; but they soon found out that bullets could go uphill … as well as downhill” – Private John Coxe, Company B, 2nd South Carolina.
“We fire from big rock into bit of timber dark with smoke” – B. F. Powelson, Company K, 140th Pennsylvania.
“I ordered a retreat to the buildings at Rose’s” – Brigadier General Joseph B. Kershaw.
“We came suddenly under a very severe fire from the front, most probably another line of battle of the enemy [10th Georgia]” – Lieutenant James J. Smith, 69th New York.
“The brigade … reached its most advanced position on the crest of a small hill” – Lieutenant Colonel John Fraser.
“We came to a ledge of rocks; here a number of the rebels threw down their arms and surrendered” – Captain John W. Reynolds, 145th Pennsylvania.
“The men with much difficulty clambered up the rocky steep, but as they appeared upon the crest of the hill, the enemy, drawn up in readiness just beyond, within pistol range, opened upon them a withering fire” – Lieutenant Winthrop D. Sheldon, Company H, 27th Connecticut.
“We charged upon the enemy, driving him before us, capturing some prisoners, and finally carrying the crest of the hill” – Lieutenant Colonel Richards McMichael, 53rd Pennsylvania.
“We chased the rebels up the rocks, and mounted after them” – 64th New York, History of Cattaraugus County.
“We made for the crest of the bluff in front occupied by the enemy and got there, lying down and firing” – Private George Whipple, Company F, 64th New York.
“The regiment … advanced rapidly up the ascent, driving [the enemy] from his position” – Colonel William P. Baily, 2nd Delaware.
“General Caldwell rode up in haste and …. asked if I would give him the support of my brigade. … In a few moments General Barnes came and repeated what General Caldwell had said to him and told me to take the brigade in” – Colonel Jacob B. Sweitzer.
Sources:
-The Battle of Gettysburg, John Coxe, Confederate Veteran magazine, vol. 21 (1913), p. 434.
-History of Company K of the 140th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, by B. F. Powelson, Steubenville, OH: 1906.
-Kershaw’s Brigade at Gettysburg, by J. B. Kershaw, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 3:337.
-Official Reports of Lt. James J. Smith, Lt. Col. John Fraser (commanding brigade), Capt. John W. Reynolds, Lt. Col. Richards McMichael, Col. William P. Baily.
-“The Twenty Seventh” [Connecticut], A Regimental History, by Winthrop D. Sheldon, New Haven, CT: Morris & Benham, 1866.
-History of Cattaraugus County, New York, comp. by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia: Press of J. B. Lippincott, 1879.
-George W. Whipple Gettysburg Memories, Private, Co. F, 64th N.Y.V., 8th Georgia Infantry Webpage, http://home.earthlink.net/~larsrbl/whipple.htm, 08/30/2001.
-Supplemental Report of Col. Jacob B. Sweitzer, Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, ed. by Janet B. Hewitt, Noah A. Trudeau, Bryce A. Suderow, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1995.
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