…at Gettysburg.
"Did you know there are some York County PA connections to the bitter late afternoon and early evening fighting on the Second Day of the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863?
Here are a few of those local ties…
Jubal Early, John B. Gordon, Harry T. Hays, and William "Extra Billy" Smith were the four Confederate infantry generals whose troops occupied central York County from June 28-30, 1863, just prior to the battle of Gettysburg. More than a full third of the 6,600 Confederate infantrymen who visited York and/or Wrightsville were subsequently wounded, killed, or captured at Gettysburg, mostly on the second day.
As part of Early's veteran division attacked East Cemetery Hill on the evening of July 2, Federal commanders were able to shift Second Corps reserve troops from the Cemetery Ridge defensive line to help repulse Early's hard-hitting, but largely unsupported attack. The major reason these Union troops (including my three great-great-uncles in the 7th West Virginia Infantry, the Chambers boys) were available for this sudden counterattack was that much of Maj. Gen. Richard Anderson's Confederate division did not aggressively push eastward from Seminary Ridge toward Cemetery Ridge. If they had done so, then my ancestors and the rest of Red Carroll's "Gibraltar Brigade" likely would have been frozen in place and not available to reinforce the hard-pressed defenders on Cemetery Hill…"
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