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Title: The story of a Confederate boy in the Civil War
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, David E. (David Emmons), 1845-1917 Johnston, David E. (David Emmons), 1845-1917. Four years a soldier
Subjects: Johnston, David E. (David Emmons), 1845-1917 Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 7th. Company D
Publisher: Portland, Or. : Glass & Prudhomme Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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hat Kem-pers brigade, the smallest of the division, did notthen number over 1,250. The advance now be-gan, the men calling out to the wounded andothers: Goodbye, boys! Goodbye! Unableto move, I could not accompany this advance—did not see, hear, observe or know what there-after happened only from the statement of others.I will not attempt to state, but for a reasonableand fair report thereof will give the publishedstatement of an intelligent Union soldier (a Mas-sachusets man) who observed the movement ofPicketts division, which is as follows: But what is Gettysburg, either in itsfirst days Federal defeat, or its second daysterrible slaughter around Little Round Top,without the third days immortal charge byPickett and his brave Virginians! * * *Then Pickett and his brave legions stoodup and formed for the death struggle: threeremnants of brigades, consisting of Gar-netts—the 8th, 18th, 19th, 28th and 56thVirginia; Armisteads brigade^-the 9th,14th, 38th, 53d, 57th Virginia; Kempers
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Corporal Jesse B. Young A CONFEDERATE BOY 209 brigade—ist, 3d, 7th, nth, 24th Virginia.Their tattered flags bore the scars of a scoreof battles, and from their ranks the merci-less bullet had already taken two-thirdstheir number. In compact ranks: their frontscarcely covering two of Hancocks brigades,with flags waiving as if for a gala day.* * * It was nearly a mile to the Unionlines, and as they advanced over the openplain the Federal artillery opened again,plowing great lanes through their solidranks, but they closed up to guide center,as if upon dress parade. When half wayover, Pickett halted his division amidst aterrible fire of shot and shell, and changedhis direction by an oblique movement,coolly and beautifully made. * * * Tothose who have ever faced artillery fire itis marvellous and unexplainable how humanbeings could have advanced under the ter-rific fire of a hundred cannon, every inchof air being laden with the missiles of death ;but in splendid formation they still came

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