A day to remember

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

The Battle of Gettysburg Timeline

Gettysburg Battle Summary for Day Three: Friday, July 3, 1863

 

4:30am Union troops renew the fight at Culp's Hill. Attacks and counterattacks continue for nearly seven hours.

 

8:30am Sniper fire between Confederate troops barricaded in town and Union troops on Cemetery Hill continues throughout the day. Twenty year old Mary Virginia "Jenny" Wade is shot by a stray bullet in her sister's kitchen on Baltimore Street as she makes biscuits for Union soldiers. She is the only civilian casualty of the battle.

 

1:00pm Stuart leads his Confederate Calvary around to confront the Union rear, including Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer, along Cemetery Ridge.

 

1:07pm Two cannon shots fire from Seminary Ridge, the signal for Confederates to harden the attack near the now famous copse of trees on Cemetery Ridge. The Union side retaliates. There are almost two hours of rapid fire from 250 cannons. It is reportedly heard in Pittsburgh, 150 miles west, but not in Chambersburg, only 15 miles west.

 

Between 2:00pm and 3:00pm The Confederate batteries run low on ammunition. Major General George E. Pickett asks Longstreet, "General, shall I advance?" and receives a nod to carry out the now famous Pickett's Charge.

 

4:00pm Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistad and about 200 men make it through the angle in the stone wall, but he is mortally wounded as he places his hand on an enemy cannon to capture it. The high water mark of the Confederacy is reached and the survivors retreat.

 

5:00pm Union cavalry division commander Brigadier General Judson Kilpatrick learns of the successful repulse and organizes his own counterattack against Confederates west of the Round Top hills. It is unsuccessful without infantry.

[Subdeacon Joe]

And on the same day, Pemberton sent a note to Grant to arrange the surrender of his troops at Vicksburg. Kind of funny how the emotional victory in PA completely overshadows the more strategically important victory in MS.

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

There was a lot of hard fighting left in the east and for the Army of the Potomac, for sure. And then there was that little matter in Chattanooga to deal with.

[Utah Bob #35998]

Newspapers concentrated on the East and the Army of the Potomac much more than the far western campaigns along the Mississippi. And the fights in the Real West....fuggedaboutit.

 

Not much different than today. Too bad Columbus didn't discover Kansas first. There might be some parity.

[Subdeacon Joe]

Newspapers concentrated on the East and the Army of the Potomac much more than the far western campaigns along the Mississippi. And the fights in the Real West....fuggedaboutit.

 

Not much different than today. Too bad Columbus didn't discover Kansas first. There might be some parity.

 

Or that England didn't follow up on Drakes discovery of California. Can you imagine how different it would be if Marin County had started out as an English colony?

 

Leads to all sorts of "what ifs"

[Apache Hawk 60642]

OPPSSS !

 

 

[Apache Hawk 60642]

Double tap !

[Apache Hawk 60642]

sort of !

 

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Makes a man study on what wood dis country be like IF the Confederates won.

Wood it be better or worse off ? I wonder.......................

[Tom Bullweed]

Vicksburg was the last crossover of the Mississippi River. The fall of this city meant that the CSA was divided in two halves. The Texans famously fought on in large numbers all the way to the Battle of Bentonville.

 

Jeb Stuart showed up at the end of day #2 of the battle of Getysburg with provisions of 400 captured wagons from a supply train. he failed to realize that he was Lee's eyes; without him Lee had no way of knowing the 'how many, where from, and where to' intel about the US Army.

 

Lee had recently been thrown from Traveller and may ahve suffered a slight stroke. He had been riding an ambulance wagon for about a week before this battle.

 

Longstreet was throwing another tantrum becuase some of his troops had been given to the new Third Corps under AP Hill.

 

The CSA failed on numerous accounts in thsi pivotal battle. Studying it shows that God's might hand was directing that the South would not win this war.

[Tom Bullweed]

Vicksburg was the last crossover of the Mississippi River. The fall of this city meant that the CSA was divided in two halves. The Texans famously fought on in large numbers all the way to the Battle of Bentonville.

 

Jeb Stuart showed up at the end of day #2 of the battle of Getysburg with provisions of 400 captured wagons from a supply train. he failed to realize that he was Lee's eyes; without him Lee had no way of knowing the 'how many, where from, and where to' intel about the US Army.

 

Lee had recently been thrown from Traveller and may ahve suffered a slight stroke. He had been riding an ambulance wagon for about a week before this battle.

 

Longstreet was throwing another tantrum becuase some of his troops had been given to the new Third Corps under AP Hill.

 

The CSA failed on numerous accounts in thsi pivotal battle. Studying it shows that God's might hand was directing that the South would not win this war.

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

If the South had won the war, the world would be a different place. There were three major wars fought by the United States between 1865 and 1945. Two of them would probably have ended the same way if the South had won, but the big one, WW II, would have been a different matter. It took all of the resources of the whole country to put that one behind us.

[Apache Hawk 60642]

If the South had won the war, the world would be a different place. There were three major wars fought by the United States between 1865 and 1945. Two of them would probably have ended the same way if the South had won, but the big one, WW II, would have been a different matter. It took all of the resources of the whole country to put that one behind us.

 

 

For example, Badger, WWII was still won by da allies.

How wood dis world be today ?

Better off or not ? Ummmmmm

 

 

[Henry T Harrison]

Stuarts absence really had little to do with the defeat; both he and Longstreet were made scapegoats by the apologists for Lee and the “Lost Cause”. His supporters including Ewell could not let him take the blame for the defeat.

Stuart did not leave him blind, Lee still had 3 brigades of cavalry at his disposal. Longstreet was made the demon after the war when he joined the Republican party. If Lee would have had any doubts about Longstreet would he have kept him as his second in command until the end of the war? Ewell of course was covering his own ass for his failure on day one. Had he taken cemetery ridge on that day there might not have even been a day two.

Lee himself never commented except to place the blame on himself.

I have always wondered if Pickets charge could have been successful if it had it been timed to occur before dawn when the attackers would have not been exposed to the aimed fire of both infantry and artillery while they crossed that open ground. It is still awe inspiring to make that walk today

[Jeremiah Sullivan]

The Battle of Gettysburg Timeline

Gettysburg Battle Summary for Day Three: Friday, July 3, 1863

 

4:30am Union troops renew the fight at Culp's Hill. Attacks and counterattacks continue for nearly seven hours.

 

8:30am Sniper fire between Confederate troops barricaded in town and Union troops on Cemetery Hill continues throughout the day. Twenty year old Mary Virginia "Jenny" Wade is shot by a stray bullet in her sister's kitchen on Baltimore Street as she makes biscuits for Union soldiers. She is the only civilian casualty of the battle.

 

1:00pm Stuart leads his Confederate Calvary around to confront the Union rear, including Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer, along Cemetery Ridge.

 

1:07pm Two cannon shots fire from Seminary Ridge, the signal for Confederates to harden the attack near the now famous copse of trees on Cemetery Ridge. The Union side retaliates. There are almost two hours of rapid fire from 250 cannons. It is reportedly heard in Pittsburgh, 150 miles west, but not in Chambersburg, only 15 miles west.

 

Between 2:00pm and 3:00pm The Confederate batteries run low on ammunition. Major General George E. Pickett asks Longstreet, "General, shall I advance?" and receives a nod to carry out the now famous Pickett's Charge.

 

4:00pm Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistad and about 200 men make it through the angle in the stone wall, but he is mortally wounded as he places his hand on an enemy cannon to capture it. The high water mark of the Confederacy is reached and the survivors retreat.

 

5:00pm Union cavalry division commander Brigadier General Judson Kilpatrick learns of the successful repulse and organizes his own counterattack against Confederates west of the Round Top hills. It is unsuccessful without infantry.

 

And on 3rd July, Sergent Patrick Farrington, 87th (or was it 83rd) New York Volunteers, who had fought in all battles to date, was struck by Rebel fire. He fell and lingered until July 10th, when he passsed.

 

His sister, my mother's grandmother, hated Mr Lincoln ever after, blaming the log-splitter for the loss of the family's breadwinner. My wife found the originals of her letters seeking financial relief in the old Pension Files, during some research in "Washington City" nearly twenty years ago. That trove helped to flesh out a little of the family history and turned a vague family legend into real "flesh and Blood" for us. It was a hard choice between Sgt Patrick Farrington and my father's horse-shoer step father, Jeremiah Sullivan, when I had to choose my SASS alias. Jeremiah won out for his years spent in the NM and Colorado mining country as a journeyman horse-shoer, before he returned east and married my widowed paternal grandmother in 1906.

 

Here's to all those "boys" of so long ago, some raised in the "hollers" of the interior, some recruited to fight as they stepped off the boat in Castle Gardens. I am glad that the prediction that "The world will little note nor long remember..." has proved false.

 

To those boys of the summer of "63, to those of the winter of '76, the Spring of '18, and to all those who fought and sacrificed right down to this Summer of 2012, that we might comfortably sit and enjoy our freedoms...THANK YOU, and we remember you.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Makes a man study on what wood dis country be like IF the Confederates won.

Wood it be better or worse off ? I wonder.......................

 

It would likely be at least four countries now: The Union, The Confederacy, the middle states and Pacific Northwest, and Mexico.....possibly more. I don't see any of them being a major world power which mean there would be a great possibility that we would be largely controlled by Germany, Japan, and Russia by now. They were all, at one time or another looking at the North American areas with greedy eyes.

 

Most of Europe would now be speaking German (or Russian...or both), China and Southeast Asia (as well as most of the Pacific and the Australian areas) would belong to Japan, the history that was the British Empire would have been severely altered, a vast portion of the world would be worse than most Third World countries today, and the planet's population would be less than half what it is today.

[Apache Hawk 60642]

I am thinking the same thing, Forty !