Hide Article Text (OCR)
was won and lost on the next day, July 2. General Lee attacked. General Longstreet drove baci? a Union corps, but failed to take Little Round Top. General Ewell attacked , Culp’s Hill but was repulsed. 'At General Lee’s orders General Longstreet attacked. The result was the famous Pickett's Charge, the high tide of Southern valor. But it was futile. The Battle of Gettysburg was lost. General Lee led his battered army across the Potomac.The Army of Northern Virginialost 3,903 men killed and 24,000wounded and missing. ,Although General Lee would frustrate Union attempts to take Richmond for *two more years, the Army of Northern Virginia would never again be the dazzling offensive instrument it had been at 2nd Bull Run, and Chancellors-ville. Butts County casualties in this battle were J. H. Ridgeway of the 45tti ^Regiment and J. M. McClure of the 14th Regiment.John Andrews a young man from Butts County who enlisted in the 14th Georgia Regiment has this to say about the battle. .“The next battle I was in was at Gettysburg, Pa. I was wounded the afternoon of July 3 in Pickett's Charge. I lay on the battlefield in^a wheat field until 11 o’clock that night and was caried by Alex Holsenback to the field hospital. I lay there on the ground with no blapket until one of my company, Yelverton Thax-ton split his blanket and put half of it op me. A deed of this kind can never be forgotten. Early the
Newspaper Details
Jackson Progress Argus
Jackson, Georgia, US
Thu, Jun 01, 1961
Page 8
Full Page
Clipped by
Janice R.
GA, USA 01 Sep 2016
Other Publications Near Jackson, Georgia
Jackson News
Middle Georgia Argus
Butts County Argus
Jackson Progress Argus
Butts County Progress
