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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Garnett Gettysburg . (search)
Garnett's brigade at Gettysburg.
[The following letter explains the report which follows, and which will be an addition to our series of reports on that great battle.]
Charlottesville, Virginia, March 23d, 1875. To the Secretary of the Southern Historical Society:
Dear Sir — In looking up some old papers a few days ago, I found the inclosed report of the part taken by Garnett's brigade (first Cocke's, then Pickett's, then Garnett's, and lastly Hunton's) in the battle of Gettysburg.
I am not sure who is the author of the report, as it is unsigned, but am under the impression that Lieutenant-Colonel Charles S. Peyton, of the Nineteenth Virginia infantry, wrote or dictated it. Colonel Peyton (at that time Major of the Nineteenth Virginia) was the senior field officer who escaped from the charge on Cemetery Hill and took command of the brigade after the battle.
Colonel Henry Gantt was badly wounded in two places, and Lieutenant-Colonel Ellis was killed, as is reported in
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 7 (search)