Pickett’s Brigade, CSA

During fighting on June 29, 1862, Pickett’s Brigade advanced to the summit of a hill and was met by an intense storm of shot and shell. The brigade then pushed down the declivity, its ranks thinned at every step, crossed a narrow valley, and climbed the hill beyond amid heavy combat. Lieutenant William N. Wood of the 19th Virginia Infantry recalled becoming nearly exhausted, failing to reach the opposite bank of a ravine, falling into the bottom of a ten-foot ditch, and seeing the men beyond climbing the hill shouting and shooting fiercely.

Virginia · United States