The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader: An Eyewitness History of the Civil War's Greatest Battle by Gragg Rod

Author:Gragg, Rod [Gragg, Rod]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2013-06-10T07:00:00+00:00

Known as “Old Jubilee” to his troops, Major General Jubal A. Early could be irascible and annoying, but no one doubted his fighting ability.

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University

For the North Carolinians who survived the charge, that brief time in the darkness on Cemetery Hill would always be the high tide of the Confederacy—the closest point to Southern victory and nationhood. But it was not to last; for a variety of peculiar reasons, the expected Confederate reserves failed to follow Avery’s troops up the hill. After only a few minutes of conquest, the North Carolinians came under assault by a brigade of Federal Second Corps soldiers commanded by Colonel Samuel S. Carroll, who had been hurried to Cemetery Hill by General Hancock. Pressed by the enemy reinforcements, the exhausted Tarheel troops retreated back down the hill in the moonlight.

Major James F. Beall of the 21st North Carolina made the charge up Cemetery Hill with Avery’s brigade. His account follows.

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