W. Richardson
Captain
- Joined
- Jun 29, 2011
- Location
- Mt. Gilead, North Carolina
With the Rochester graduates............
As Capt. Winfield Scott looked out across the Pennsylvania farm fields that hot afternoon in July 1863, he saw a sight “grand
beyond description.” In the distance, line after line of enemy soldiers stepped into view, their guns and bayonets gleaming in the
sunlight. They looked like “a stream or river of silver moving toward us.”
The Class of 1859 graduate—a Syracuse minister who left the pulpit to wield a sword—was at “ground zero” for one of the
most dramatic, defining moments of the American Civil War: Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Scott’s former University classmate, Lt. Col. Francis Pierce, Class of 1859, 1862 (AM); another University graduate, Capt. John Ronald
Leslie, Class of 1856, 1860 (AM); and a University undergraduate, Lt. Samuel Porter, Class of 1864, were also in the Union ranks
on Cemetery Ridge that day, bracing for the onslaught of 12,000 southern soldiers whose desperate charge marked the high tide of
the Confederacy
Respectfully,
William
As Capt. Winfield Scott looked out across the Pennsylvania farm fields that hot afternoon in July 1863, he saw a sight “grand
beyond description.” In the distance, line after line of enemy soldiers stepped into view, their guns and bayonets gleaming in the
sunlight. They looked like “a stream or river of silver moving toward us.”
The Class of 1859 graduate—a Syracuse minister who left the pulpit to wield a sword—was at “ground zero” for one of the
most dramatic, defining moments of the American Civil War: Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Scott’s former University classmate, Lt. Col. Francis Pierce, Class of 1859, 1862 (AM); another University graduate, Capt. John Ronald
Leslie, Class of 1856, 1860 (AM); and a University undergraduate, Lt. Samuel Porter, Class of 1864, were also in the Union ranks
on Cemetery Ridge that day, bracing for the onslaught of 12,000 southern soldiers whose desperate charge marked the high tide of
the Confederacy
Respectfully,
William