GETTYSBURG

Timeline

• Hood is WIA from Devil's Den  -- "We should have gone to the right."
• Harrison sent to scout Federal flank

Hood

Harrison

• J.E.B. Stewart returns at last
• Lee criticizes attacks that day
• Longstreet again recommends maneuver

Longstreet

• Discussion of Darwin
• Armistead asks of Hancock
• Package for Hancock's wife

Longstreet

Armistead

Kemper

• J.E.B. Stuart reports.  Lee rebukes him for failure to stay in contact.   "It must never, never happen again."
• Steward offers to resign.  Lee declines

Stuart

Timeline

• Chamberlain relaxing
• 20th Maine is down to 100 men

Tom

• Lee orders Longstreet to attack the center of the Federal line
• Longstreet argues - they have too many men, too well entrenched, too much firepower
• Lee overrules.  "Retreat is no longer an option..... we will prevail."

Longstreet

• 20th Maine relieved - to move to 'the safest place on the battlefield', the center of the Federal line

courier

• Lee lays out plan.  Massed artillery, 15,000 men in the attack, break the Union center
• Longstreet again doubts.  "I believe this attack will fail.  No 15,000 men ever made can take that ridge."
• Lee prevails.  The Federals are weak there.  The artillery will clear the center

Longstreet

• Lee rides among the men.  He is cheered wildly

troops

• Longstreet issues orders.  Artillery to pound the Federal position, drive their artillery off.  Infantry to angle in to the clump of trees in the center
• Harrison asks for a musket
• Longstreet predicts disaster - 50% casualties

Alexander

Pickett

Pettigrew

Trimble

• Hancock complements Chamberlain
• Hancock reflects on Armistead
• Tom reports from the field hospital - Sgt Major is dead

Hancock

Tom

• Confederate artillery opens fire
• Pandemonium in the Federal position
• Hancock rides amid the explosions to steady the men.  "There are times when a Corps Commander's life does not matter."

Hancock

• Troops waiting under Federal return fire
• Pickett enthusiastic
• Armistead calms the troops

Pickett

Armistead

• Running low on ammunition
• Must clear the Federal guns

Longstreet

• Message from Alexander - hurry up
• Pickett asks to go forward

Longstreet

• Drummers - troops march out into the open
• Pickett - "Up,men, and to your posts! Don't forget today that andyou are from Old Virginia!"
• Armistead - " Virginians! Virginians! For your land - for your homes - for your sweethearts - for your wives - for Virginia! Forward... march!"

Armistead

troops

• Federal artillery resumes fire
• With growing casualties, the Rebels advance, climb over a wooden fence
• As they get in range, the Federal infantry opens fire
• Hancock hit - refuses evacuation
• Armistead orders double quick, hat held high on sword
• Kemper hit
• Armistead - "Virginians! Virginians!  Who will come with me?"
• Rebels reach Federal line.  Hand-to-hand fighting
• Armistead hit
• The Confederate withdrawal begins - the Federals chant "Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!"
• Armistead asks of Hancock - "Tell him General Armistead sends his regrets.   Would you tell him how very sorry I am?"
• As the survivors return, Longstreet rides out

• Lee visits the dying Kemper
• Lee - "It's all my fault.  I thought we were invincible ..... we must rest now ..... never let them see you run."
• Pickett - "General Lee, I have no Division."

Kemper

Pickett

• Lee orders withdrawal to Virginia
• "We will do better another time."

Longstreet

• Gathering the casualties
• The Chamberlain brothers comfort each other

Tom