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[neyankee61]

"For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago; or to anyone who ever sailed a skiff under a quilt sail, the moment in 1492 when somebody thought This is it: the absolute edge of no return, to turn back now and make home or sail irrevocably on and either find land or plunge over the world's roaring rim."

… William Faulkner
From his book: Intruder in the Dust, 1948.

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

"For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago; or to anyone who ever sailed a skiff under a quilt sail, the moment in 1492 when somebody thought This is it: the absolute edge of no return, to turn back now and make home or sail irrevocably on and either find land or plunge over the world's roaring rim."

… William Faulkner
From his book: Intruder in the Dust, 1948.

Thread 'A Tennessean At Gettysburg'

Jul 18, 2015

In his description of the failed July 3rd Confederate attack on the center of the Union line, author Shelby Foote includes the experience of Clarksville Tennessee's Junius (June) Kimble. Today I was fortunate enough to locate a photo of him, found in Confederate Veteran Magazine.

Junius Kimble : Residence was Clarksville, Tennessee, Enlisted there 4 /19/ 1861 as a sergeant in Co.A 14th Tennessee Infantry. Promoted to 1st Lieut. And later Captain. Surrendered at Appomattox, 4/9/1865. Born in Clarksville 4/1/1842. Died in Eastland, Texas 4/4/1911.

Mr Foote wrote the...

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[Kyle Kalasnik]

Andrew Paulette, 4th great uncle, was KIA serving with Co H, 18th VA Inf during Pickett's Charge.

 

[nc native]

Andrew Paulette, 4th great uncle, was KIA serving with Co H, 18th VA Inf during Pickett's Charge.

My 2x great grandfather James P. Glenn was a First Lieutenant in Company D of the 18th Virginia Infantry and company commander during Pickett's Charge. He was wounded in the leg, suffering his third wound of the war and was captured on the battlefield on July 4, 1863. He was sent to Johnston's Island, Ohio after recovering in a Baltimore hospital in August 1863. He was exchanged in March of 1865 and promoted to Captain before the war ended.

James P. Glenn had two brothers who were sergeants in the same company. Isaac S. Glenn was killed and his body was never identified. Charles Glenn was wounded in the arm and captured. His arm was amputated by a surgeon from a New York regiment in one of the Union Corps hospitals and he was later exchanged in 1863. The 18th Virginia had a 75% casualty rate during Pickett's Charge.