Let me see if I can extricate myself from this one? To answer Charles, no, JEB Stuart wouldn't have charged up the hill, but hopefully would have flanked to the southeast and approached from the rear, giving the Maine boys something to think about Law's brigade gave it their best shot. Any such activity would have helped the southern cause immensely and certainly the fate of the 15th Alabama.
As for Shane, you have caught me in the crossfire. Without paying attention I plucked JEB Stuart's name out of my left ear, since I recall his being late for the battle. I also had an ancestor of my own, John Calvn Rouse, private with the 48th Virginia who was on/near Culp's Hill for far too long. He walked away.
Shane, are you confusing JEB Stuart with George H. Steuart who was the last tip of the "j" at Culps Hill? Here is an excerpt from that brigade monument:
C. S. A.
ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
EWELL'S CORPS JOHNSON'S DIVISION
STEUART'S BRIGADE
1st Maryland Battalion 1st and 3rd North Carolina 1Oth 23rd and 37th
Virginia Infantry
July 1. Arrived about nightfall and took position near Hanover Road about a mile east of Rock Creek with left wing at edge of woods.
July 2. Crossing Rock Creek at 6 P. M. the 3D N. C. and 1st Md. attacked the lesser summit of Culp's Hill. Reinforced later by the other regiments the Union breastworks thinly manned at some points were occupied to the southern base of the main summit but only after a vigorous and desperate conflict.
July 3. The Union troops reinforced the conflict at dawn and it raged fiercely until 11 A. M. when this Brigade and the entire line fell back to the base of the hill and from thence moved about midnight to Seminary Ridge northwest of the town.
July 4. Occupied Seminary Ridge. About 10 P. M. began the march to Hagerstown.
Present about 1700 Killed 83 Wounded 409 Missing 190 Total 682
Now I need to go figure out where JEB Stuart was located when he arrived. Could be I owe an apology and a swift kick to my own butt.
Looking at my copy of JEB STUART by John W. Thomason Jr. (Schribner's 1944), there is a description of JEB Stuart's action on the third day at Gettysburg. "About noon, Stuart led his brigades out the York Pike..... for two and a half miles he followed the pike.... Behind these woods he placed hampton, Fitz Lee, and Chambliss, while Jenkin's men, dismounted....Across the flat, three-eights of a mile to the east, is a long stand of timber, in which wait, out of sight, the squadrons of Gregg, Kilpatrick, and Custer.... Stuart shells the woods a little....it is 2:30 pm, he will attack where he is....Chambliss, Fitz Lee and Hampton ride down - in array very splendid, Yankee observers note: flags and fuidons in place, bright sabres at the carry...Then, a straight pounding fight... The blue dismounted lines are driven from the flat. the squadrons of Gregg and Custer and Buford come charging out and cut up Jenkins. Hampton and Lee meet them furiously, and the battle sways in a dense dust cloud, up and down, now toward the Hanover Pike, now toward Stuart's wood. Wade Hampton, fighting among his troopers, is slashed terribly, to the skull, with a sabre... squadrons draw off Fitz Lee, Hampton and Chambliss to the ground from which they started and Gregg and Buford and Kilpatrick to their old line. Dead horses and dead men lie in the trampled flat between. Stuart has seen no sign of a gray break-through yonder. Stuart's loss is 119 in three brigades...
Shane this is not Culp's Hill. That was old George Stuart. Yes, JEB Stuart and the action described WAS close by however, maybe a mile or less to the north. Stuart left here on the evening of the 3rd of July to help Lee prepare for the retreat to the west.