Observing the advance, General Hunt ordered his batteries into action. This time the artillery was employed with deadly precision and effect on target. Delivering multiple Confederate wounded or dead with each round of Grape Shot fired. The effects of accurate artillery fire combined with the terrain began to close the 400 yard gap between General Pickett and General Pettigrew. With the bunching up of troops in General Pickett’s and General Pettigrew’s Divisions, General Hunt’s artillery was all the more effective.
At The Fence
Crossing the entire Confederate axis of advance was Emmitsburg Road. Emmitsburg Road was well worn, sunken, and had fences on both sides. It would prove to be devastating for the Confederate cause. The fences along …show more content…
Near the same time that the 8th Ohio had made their move, a Brigade from Vermont under the Command of George Stannard began their attack on the right flank of the Confederate advance and into General Pickett’s Division. With General Stannard’s devastating enfilade fire the entire Confederate assault lost it momentum.
General Lewis Armistead, the commander of General Pickett’s reserve Brigade either by order or sensing that the Confederate assault was losing momentum rallied his men and made a heroic assault on the Union line. General Armistead and his men successfully penetrated the line and it looked like a Confederate victory may be achieved. Shortly after penetrating Union lines, General Armistead was shot and killed next to a Union artillery piece. Seeing the loss of their Commander, Confederate forces began to flee the opening they had created in the Union line. The general disorder of the Confederate troops who had made the breakthrough allowed for Union reinforcements to organize and push the Confederates out sealing the hole in their
At The Fence
Crossing the entire Confederate axis of advance was Emmitsburg Road. Emmitsburg Road was well worn, sunken, and had fences on both sides. It would prove to be devastating for the Confederate cause. The fences along …show more content…
Near the same time that the 8th Ohio had made their move, a Brigade from Vermont under the Command of George Stannard began their attack on the right flank of the Confederate advance and into General Pickett’s Division. With General Stannard’s devastating enfilade fire the entire Confederate assault lost it momentum.
General Lewis Armistead, the commander of General Pickett’s reserve Brigade either by order or sensing that the Confederate assault was losing momentum rallied his men and made a heroic assault on the Union line. General Armistead and his men successfully penetrated the line and it looked like a Confederate victory may be achieved. Shortly after penetrating Union lines, General Armistead was shot and killed next to a Union artillery piece. Seeing the loss of their Commander, Confederate forces began to flee the opening they had created in the Union line. The general disorder of the Confederate troops who had made the breakthrough allowed for Union reinforcements to organize and push the Confederates out sealing the hole in their