The attack and defense of Little Round Top, Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 by Oliver Willcox Norton

Author:Oliver Willcox Norton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Neale Publishing Company

F1fteenth Alabama

As Colonel Oates has made a long and elaborate account in his book, "The War Between <the Union and the Confederacy," which I have quoted elsewhere, with my comments, I have nothing further to add here. The reader is referred to this paper among my extracts from the histories (pp. 77-110).

Forty-fourth Alabama

This regiment appears to have advanced into the Plum Run valley on the flank of the battery on the Devil's Den and to have fought the infantry posted in the rear of the battery to support it. When Benning's brigade advanced, its line more than covered the front of the Devil's Den, one regiment at least being in the Plum Run valley, and joining the left of the Forty-fourth Alabama. The Union line retreated from the three front guns of the battery. The remaining three were taken to the rear. With Benning's brigade and part of Robertson's holding this position, the Forty-fourth was left free to join the Fortyeighth in the advance against the crest of Little Round Top if it wished to do so. Colonel Perry does not mention any such movement. In a letter written to Colonel Oates by Colonel Perry several years after the war, which I have quoted in my extracts from Oates' book, Perry speaks of his exhaustion and of his having been stunned by the explosion of a shell near him. He was not in condition to know much about what happened at the end of the fight about the Devil's Den. He makes no mention in his report of the withdrawal of his regiment nor where it went when withdrawn.

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