Unknown picture found at Gettysburg 1863

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http://john-banks.blogspot.com/2016/02/most-valuable-gettysburg-relic-image.html

What CS regiments were opposite the 14th Conn Regiment?

 

[AndyHall]

The 14th Connecticut was positioned just north of the famous Copse of Trees, close to the Angle, that was the focus of the Confederate assault. There were a dozen or more Confederate regiments that got funneled into that part of the Federal line; it was a jumble:

 

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I wrote to Gettysburg Park about this unknown picture and also queried as to CS regiments opposite the 14th Conn.
Got this reply from historian John Hiser:

Units opposed by the 14th Connecticut on July 3 were from Pettigrew's (Heth's) and Trimble's (Pender's) Divisions. It's not possible to isolate which specific regiment or regiments were directly in front of the 14th due to the confused nature of the attack after the Confederates had crossed the Emmitsburg Road, though the nearest to 14th's position were most likely from Fry's (Archer's) Brigade, Pettigrew's brigade under Colonel Marshall, and at least part of Scales' Brigade under Colonel Lowrance.

Sincerely,

John Heiser
Historian, Division of Interpretation
National Park Service, Gettysburg National Military Park
(717) 338-4424
[email protected]

Wrote to Museum of the Confederacy at Richmond Va about this unknown picture and also quired as to CS regiments opposite the 14th Conn
Got this reply from historian John Coski:
Dear Mr. Fazzini:

Thank you for your message, which my colleagues in our Collections
Department shared with me.

You'll find accounts of the units that the 14th Connecticut faced in the
colonel's official report, published in the "Official Records," series I,
vol. 27, part 1 (I'll append below a link to the online version of the
report) and Richard Rollins' "THE DAMNED RED FLAGS OF THE REBELLION": THE
CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG AT GETTYSBURG (Rank & File Publications, 1997),
which details which Confederate units faced which Federal units in order to
identify captured and lost flags. According to those sources, the 14th
Connecticut faced primarily Birkett Fry's (formerly James Archer's) brigade,
comprised of the 5th Bn., Alabama Infantry, 1st, 7th, and 14th Tennessee
Infantry, and 13th Alabama Infantry; and was in the near vicinity of
Marshall's (formerly Pettigrew's) brigade consisting of the 11th, 26, 47,
and 52nd North Carolina Infantry regiments - finding a flag of the 52nd NC
after the battle.


http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;q1=no. 124;rgn=full text;idno=waro0043;didno=waro0043;node=waro0043:3;view=image;seq=486;page=root;size=100

Because the men of the 14th Connecticut roamed the field the morning of the
battle, they may have found the bodies of men in any of the regiments of
Pettigrew's or Trimble's divisions, but the regiments in Fry's and
Marshall's were apparently the ones in closest proximity during the fight.

Sincerely,

John


John M. Coski
Historian
The American Civil War Museum
1201 E. Clay St.
Richmond, Virginia 23219
(804) 649-1861 ext. 131

 

[E_just_E]

""It was on the battle-field of Gettysburg where I secured this picture [shown above] and I prize it as the most valuable relic of my war experience. It was on the morning of July 4th, 1863, that I went among the Confederate dead who fell during the previous day's fight. I, with others, was searching for the sick and wounded who were being conveyed to the rear for treatment."

This means that it could actually be anywhere in the Pickett's charge battlefield, since he was searching for survivors, so not necessarily just troops opposing his regiment only. Could even be one of Pickett's Virginians.

 

[DixieRifles]

John Heiser
Historian, Division of Interpretation
National Park Service, Gettysburg National Military Park

John is my Expert on the 339th Polar Bear Regiment----of WW2.
I'm trying to talk him into coming down heah to see Shiloh with me.

 

[Dave Wilma]

The novelist in me wants to drop my current project and take up this story.