Wofford's Brigade

Wofford's Brigade of McLaws's Division, Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, including the 16th, 18th, and 24th Regiments and Cobb's and Phillips's Legions Georgia Infantry, arrived at 4 p.m. on July 2 and formed line 100 yards west of this point. Ordered to the front about 6 p.m., it advanced along the Wheatfield Road, flanked the Union forces assailing the Loop, and aided the Confederates in forcing them back through the Wheatfield to the foot of Little Round Top. There, assailed by a strong body of fresh troops and receiving at the same moment an order to withdraw, the brigade fell back at sunset to the grove west of the Wheatfield. On July 3, one regiment was left on outpost duty in that grove while the others supported artillery on Peach Orchard Ridge, and all withdrew late in the afternoon. On July 4, it remained in line here all day, then at midnight began the march to Hagerstown. Present about 1350, it lost 36 killed, 207 wounded, and 112 missing, a total of 355.

Freedom Township, Pennsylvania · United States