- Joined
- Jan 16, 2015
O'Neal maintains a tenuous foothold along the Mummasburg road. Cutler's brigade is relieved by the 16th Maine and 94th New York. A brief second charge into the fields west of the ridge is made by the 97th New York, which brings in 80 more prisoners. The 107th Pennsylvania, 16th Maine and 94th New York of Paul's brigade also make abbreviated forays, sustaining loss with little to show in return. Colonel Leonard receives a gunshot wound in the arm and the brigade command passes to Colonel Adrian R. Root of the 94th New York. Map shows the situation at 2:45 p.m., July 1.
"Pretty soon had to fall back to a fence" – Corporal Samuel Pickens, Company D, 5th Alabama.
"We still kept up our fusillade, but our ranks gradually became more and more disintegrated" – Private Bourne Spooner, Company D, 13th Massachusetts.
"Changed direction by the left flank and went into a piece of woods, marched through, and began the battle" – Private Dexter J. Maltby, 94th New York.
"Went up through the trees to a rail fence. Beyond it was another field, and from behind a fence … some 200 yards distant … a rebel line was firing … Captain [William H.] Waldron [of Company I], shouting to his men to keep cool and aim low, was struck; I saw him put up his hand as blood gushed from his neck. … Colonel [Charles W.] Tilden rode up to the line, his mount was shot, and horse and rider went down; but the colonel was on his feet in a moment, unshaken. … Up went our colors and over the fence, and the regiment followed with a shout; but our line was recalled. As we came back over the field a rebel battery shelled us, and some of our men fell" – Adjutant Abner R. Small, 16th Maine.
"The 97th was ordered again over the wall … This movement was unobserved by a part of Company A … [which] seeing the prisoners about three hundred yards [distant] followed on a double-quick by the captain [Isaac Hall] and his men. … Meanwhile the 97th … charged over the meadow … captured [an additional] 80 prisoners" – Captain Isaac Hall, Company A, 97th New York.
"Some excited fellows on our right pushed over the wall, and a charge was made, our regiment joining. They [the 107th] were severely punished and forced back and held the old line until ordered back" – Member of the 107th Pennsylvania.
"We continued to fire the few remaining cartridges on hand" – Captain Edmund Y. Patterson, 88th Pennsylvania.
"I was relieved by other troops, when I fell back under the hill, and sent for ammunition. … After waiting about twenty minutes, I moved the brigade to the railroad" – Brigadier General Lysander Cutler.
"Relieved by Paul's brigade and moved to the east slope of the ridge, but while here, was enfiladed by a battery that the enemy had placed in position on Oak Hill" – Colonel J. William Hoffman, 56th Pennsylvania.
"Our Col., realizing our extreme danger, ordered us to fall back" – Member of the 3rd Alabama.
"The Third Alabama fell back, leaving my left exposed, and I ordered my regiment back some 50 yards, it at this time being exposed to a fire on both flanks. I changed my front to the right, to face the enemy on the right" – Colonel William A. Owens, 53rd North Carolina.
Sources:
-Voices from Company D, Diaries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, ed. by G. Ward Hubbs, Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2003.
-Reminiscence of Bourne Spooner, cited in, The 13th Massachusetts on July 1, by Bradley M. Forbush, Gettysburg Magazine, no. 55, July 2016, ed. by James S. Pula, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, no. 55, July 2016, pp. 2-24.
-July 12 letter of D. J. Maltby to the Editor of the Jefferson County News, http://www.skaneateles.org/cw_misc/maltby.html, 01/10/2004.
-The Road to Richmond, The Civil War Memoirs of Major Abner R. Small of the Sixteenth Maine Volunteers, ed. by Harold Adams Small, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1939, pp. 99-100; The Sixteenth Maine Regiment in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, by Major A. R. Small, Portland, ME: B. Thurston & Company, 1886.
-History of the Ninety-Seventh Regiment New York Volunteers in the War for the Union, by Isaac Hall.
-Address of Brevet Brig. Gen. T. F. McCoy, Dedication of the Monument to the 107th Regiment Infantry, September 11, 1889, Pennsylvania at Gettysburg, vol. 1, pp. 560-561.
-Official reports of Capt. Edmund Y. Patterson, Brig. Gen. Lysander Cutler, Col. William A. Owens.
-Address of Brevet Brig. Gen. J. William Hoffman, Dedication of the Monument to the 56th Pennsylvania, September 11, 1889, Pennsylvania at Gettysburg, I:345.
-War Memories of an Old Hornet, Auburn University, Alabama, on file at Gettysburg National Military Park (unidentified soldier of the 3rd Alabama, possibly Private Micajah L. Stinson of Company D).
"Pretty soon had to fall back to a fence" – Corporal Samuel Pickens, Company D, 5th Alabama.
"We still kept up our fusillade, but our ranks gradually became more and more disintegrated" – Private Bourne Spooner, Company D, 13th Massachusetts.
"Changed direction by the left flank and went into a piece of woods, marched through, and began the battle" – Private Dexter J. Maltby, 94th New York.
"Went up through the trees to a rail fence. Beyond it was another field, and from behind a fence … some 200 yards distant … a rebel line was firing … Captain [William H.] Waldron [of Company I], shouting to his men to keep cool and aim low, was struck; I saw him put up his hand as blood gushed from his neck. … Colonel [Charles W.] Tilden rode up to the line, his mount was shot, and horse and rider went down; but the colonel was on his feet in a moment, unshaken. … Up went our colors and over the fence, and the regiment followed with a shout; but our line was recalled. As we came back over the field a rebel battery shelled us, and some of our men fell" – Adjutant Abner R. Small, 16th Maine.
"The 97th was ordered again over the wall … This movement was unobserved by a part of Company A … [which] seeing the prisoners about three hundred yards [distant] followed on a double-quick by the captain [Isaac Hall] and his men. … Meanwhile the 97th … charged over the meadow … captured [an additional] 80 prisoners" – Captain Isaac Hall, Company A, 97th New York.
"Some excited fellows on our right pushed over the wall, and a charge was made, our regiment joining. They [the 107th] were severely punished and forced back and held the old line until ordered back" – Member of the 107th Pennsylvania.
"We continued to fire the few remaining cartridges on hand" – Captain Edmund Y. Patterson, 88th Pennsylvania.
"I was relieved by other troops, when I fell back under the hill, and sent for ammunition. … After waiting about twenty minutes, I moved the brigade to the railroad" – Brigadier General Lysander Cutler.
"Relieved by Paul's brigade and moved to the east slope of the ridge, but while here, was enfiladed by a battery that the enemy had placed in position on Oak Hill" – Colonel J. William Hoffman, 56th Pennsylvania.
"Our Col., realizing our extreme danger, ordered us to fall back" – Member of the 3rd Alabama.
"The Third Alabama fell back, leaving my left exposed, and I ordered my regiment back some 50 yards, it at this time being exposed to a fire on both flanks. I changed my front to the right, to face the enemy on the right" – Colonel William A. Owens, 53rd North Carolina.
Sources:
-Voices from Company D, Diaries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, ed. by G. Ward Hubbs, Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2003.
-Reminiscence of Bourne Spooner, cited in, The 13th Massachusetts on July 1, by Bradley M. Forbush, Gettysburg Magazine, no. 55, July 2016, ed. by James S. Pula, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, no. 55, July 2016, pp. 2-24.
-July 12 letter of D. J. Maltby to the Editor of the Jefferson County News, http://www.skaneateles.org/cw_misc/maltby.html, 01/10/2004.
-The Road to Richmond, The Civil War Memoirs of Major Abner R. Small of the Sixteenth Maine Volunteers, ed. by Harold Adams Small, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1939, pp. 99-100; The Sixteenth Maine Regiment in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, by Major A. R. Small, Portland, ME: B. Thurston & Company, 1886.
-History of the Ninety-Seventh Regiment New York Volunteers in the War for the Union, by Isaac Hall.
-Address of Brevet Brig. Gen. T. F. McCoy, Dedication of the Monument to the 107th Regiment Infantry, September 11, 1889, Pennsylvania at Gettysburg, vol. 1, pp. 560-561.
-Official reports of Capt. Edmund Y. Patterson, Brig. Gen. Lysander Cutler, Col. William A. Owens.
-Address of Brevet Brig. Gen. J. William Hoffman, Dedication of the Monument to the 56th Pennsylvania, September 11, 1889, Pennsylvania at Gettysburg, I:345.
-War Memories of an Old Hornet, Auburn University, Alabama, on file at Gettysburg National Military Park (unidentified soldier of the 3rd Alabama, possibly Private Micajah L. Stinson of Company D).
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