Gettysburg's Peach Orchard by James A. Hessler

Author:James A. Hessler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY/United States /Civil war Period (1850-1877)
Publisher: Savas Beatie

1 McKee, “William Barksdale and the Congressional Election of 1853,” Journal of Mississippi History, 129-158; “Col. R. Davis and Captain Barksdale,” Southern Standard, June 11, 1853; Tagg, The Generals of Gettysburg, 218-220.

2 “Sickles and Barksdale on Foreign Affairs Committee,” Detroit Free Press, December 10, 1858; Hartford Courant, January 15, 1859.

3 “The Late Fight in the House,” Semi-Weekly Standard, February 13, 1858; “Who Killed Cock Robin?” Buffalo Morning Express, February 28, 1858; “More Southern Bullying,” Lewisburg Chronicle, February 12, 1858.

4 “The Mississippi Delegation in Congress,” Harper’s Weekly, February 2, 1861. Accessed at http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war-feb-1861/mississippi-delegation-biographies.htm.

5 For biographical information on Barksdale: Evans, Confederate Military History, Volume IX, 239, 256; Pfanz, Gettysburg: The Second Day, 318; Tagg, The Generals of Gettysburg, 218-220; Winschel, “Their Supreme Moment,” Gettysburg Magazine 1, 71.

6 McNeily, “Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade at Gettysburg,” 236.

7 Alexander, “The Great Charge and Artillery Fighting at Gettysburg,” Battles and Leaders, 3: 360. Alexander wrote that Moody also had two 12-pounders. See Alexander, Military Memoirs, 399. Jennings Wise copied Alexander’s text almost verbatim and therefore made the same claim. See Wise, The Long Arm of Lee, 645. Moody’s NPS tablet only references four 24 –pounder Howitzers.

8 OR, 27/2: 429-430; Alexander, “The Great Charge and Artillery Fighting at Gettysburg,” Battles and Leaders, 3: 360; Military Memoirs, 399; Wise, The Long Arm of Lee, 645.

9 United States Census of 1860, Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Mississippi, house number 160; Warren, History of the Harvard Law School and Early Legal Conditions in America, Volume III, 25; Booth, Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, Volume III, Book 1, 1023; Alexander, Fighting for the Confederacy, 230-231. The 1870 incident that claimed Woolfolk’s life is sometimes referred to as the “Capitol Disaster.” See Harper’s Weekly, Vol. XIV, No. 698, May 14, 1870.

10 McLaws, “Gettysburg,” SHSP, 7: 72-73; McNeily, “Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade,” 235, 238.

11 McLaws, “Gettysburg,” SHSP, 7: 72-73.

12 Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, 370; McLaws, “Gettysburg,” SHSP, 7: 72-73; Winschel, “Their Supreme Moment: Barksdale’s Brigade at Gettysburg,” Gettysburg Magazine 1, 74; Gottfried, Brigades of Gettysburg, 412.

13 Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, 370; McLaws, “Gettysburg,” SHSP, 7: 73; Ladd, The Bachelder Papers, 2: 902; Alexander, Military Memoirs, 395. Alan Brunelle, a student of the battle, hypothesized that a combination of two factors may have contributed to Barksdale’s delay. First, a rise in the intervening ground prevented Barksdale from seeing Kershaw begin his advance. Second, the position of Alexander / Huger’s battalion, located between Barksdale and Cabell’s guns, prevented Barksdale from hearing the signal shots that initiated Kershaw’s movements.

14 McLaws, “Gettysburg,” SHSP, 7: 74. McLaws referred to Lamar as a captain in his post-war writings. However, Lamar was a First Lieutenant to date from January 3, 1863. See Krick, Staff Officers in Gray, 196.

15 McNeily, “Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade,” 235; B.G. Humphreys Manuscript, 11; Winschel, “Their Supreme Moment: Barksdale’s Brigade at Gettysburg,” Gettysburg Magazine 1, 74. Benjamin Grubb Humphreys was not related to Union General Humphreys in Sickles’s corps.

16 Gerald, “The Battle of Gettysburg,” Waco Daily Times Herald, July 3, 1913, transcript in Brake

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