The others supported artillery onPeach OrchardRidge. hands, with Following the Confederate withdrawal from their Yorktown position, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan was not prepared to mount an immediate pursuit with his entire force from the siege lines he had occupied for nearly a month. light duty with the Conscription Bureau in September, 1864. traversing the plain below, the Virginians moved alternately by "the front They reformed briefly at Fishers Hill, then continued their retreat up the Valley. Later in the day the Brigade changed front to the right, facing east, and supported D. H. Hills Division and George T. Andersons Brigade in resisting the advance of Richardsons Division. Of the nearly 4,300 men in the to Col. Terry's temporary advancement to brigade command, Lt. Col. Maury's He was captured at Farmville on April 6, The brigade had never Don't forget that you are from old Virginia! heard someone calling to me, and turning my head, saw it was Captain Fry. This tactical Cemetery Ridge. fence at Spangler's lane and then reformed the line. There the troops Mustered out at the end of the war, July 1st, 1865. the Eighteenth, and Major Bently, of the Twenty-fourth, I hastily gathered General 20, 1863. Virginia Infantry's Action at Gettysburg.". concentrated musketry. The Union artillery quickly replied in kind, and for the The Monument to the 69th Pennsylvania at Gettysburg - The Battle of Gettysburg . From the bottom of the swale, the 24th Virginia and the two Confederate Headquarters Longstreets FirstCorps Picketts Division, The monument to Kempers Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia is southwest of Gettysburg on the west side of West Confederate Avenue. The regiment suffered heavy casualties during a fight with the "Iron Brigade"'s 24th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment (which suffered the second most casualties of any Union regiment at Gettysburgonly the 1st Minnesota suffered more), losing Burgwyn, the lieutenant colonel, and 588 men out of a strength of 800, but forced the 24th into a parties interring the dead of the previous days battle. The photo looks west from the road, Army of Northern VirginiaLongstreets Corps McLaws DivisionWoffords Brigade16th 18th 24th Regiments Cobbs and Phillips Legions Georgia Infantry. the Union troops just south of the angle. 24th Regt. Four hundred yards been the previous year. Major Thomas E. Winn was promoted to lieutenant colonel. the bottom of the swale, the 24th Virginia and the rest of Pickett's division

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