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The Stonewall Brigade at Gettysburg - Part One: In the Shadow of Wolf’s Hill - The Stonewall Brigade
This is part one of a four-part series on the actions of the Stonewall Brigade at Gettysburg, covering the early skirmishing on Wolf's Hill on July 2, 1863.
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The Stonewall Brigade at Gettysburg – Part One: In the Shadow of Wolf’s Hill
By Austin Williams, 5th Virginia Co. A
Note: The following is part one of a four-part series on the actions of the Stonewall Brigade at Gettysburg. Subsequent installments will cover the fight for Brinkerhoff’s Ridge and the July 3 attacks on Culp’s Hill, while a final epilogue will address the fate of the brigade’s flags during the battle.
With cannon fire rumbling like distant thunder to the east, Colonel Arthur J. L. Fremantle of Her Majesty’s Coldstream Guards paused his horse atop South Mountain, some fifteen miles from the town of Gettysburg. A British military advisor attached to the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, Fremantle took a short break from the oppressive heat of July 1, 1863 to watch the dust-covered columns of Confederate troops hastening towards the growing battle. “Among them I saw, for the first time,” Fremantle would write, “the celebrated ‘Stonewall’ Brigade, formerly commanded by Jackson. In appearance the men differ little from other Confederate soldiers, except, perhaps, that the brigade contains more elderly men and fewer boys.”1
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