Question of the Week: 3/21-3/27/22
Time travel question! You have to participate in the marching portion of the Gettysburg campaign. Whose brigade do you want to march with? Why?
Time travel question! You have to participate in the marching portion of the Gettysburg campaign. Whose brigade do you want to march with? Why?
Custer’s Brigade because they didn’t have to walk.
Gordon’s Brigade: “Easily one of the most charismatic and compelling citizen-soldiers of the American Civil War.”
Brig. Gen. JJ. Pettigrew’s North Carolina Brigade who initially spotted Bufords Cavalry.
Second Vermont Brigade of Doubleday’s Division of I Corps. Putting together accounts of the march from various members’ memoirs, I drive the route and found it delightful except for the last daty’s march
Any regiment from Pennsylvania attached to any brigade sent there. After all, they were going “home”, if only for a brief while..
Hays’ Tiger Brigade. Mardi Gras everyday on the march.