Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (141 page)
David Emmons Johnston, 7th Virginia Infantry, Pickett’s division; he was wounded in the bombardment that preceded Pickett’s Charge, and so lived to write his memoirs of service in the Army of Northern Virginia. “I had raised my head up to get, if possible, a breath of fresh air … when the shell exploded, which for a few moments deprived me of my breath and sensibility; I found myself lying off from the position I was in when struck, gasping for breath. My ribs on left side were broken, some fractured, left lung badly contused, and left limbs and side paralyzed.”
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The house of Abraham Bryan, where James Johnston Pettigrew’s division reached its final limit of advance; taken mid-July 1863.
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Brigadier General Alexander Stewart Webb (1835—1911), who commanded the Philadelphia Brigade at the angle. “Gettysburg,” he said in 1883, “was, and is now throughout the world known to be the Waterloo of the Rebellion.”
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