GDG- Re: Guns captured by Wright have been Identified.

[James Cameron]

<< 5) For Chuck's attack to occur, Wright must have turned the flank of
the 69th PA, but Don E., who wrote a book on this regiment, showed
that casualties in this regiment occurred on their left flank
companies, not right (north) and that accounts show this regiment
firing to the left OBLIQUE - i.e. to the south west which is where
Wright is usually thought to have attacked. Chuck - how do you
explain this? How does the 69th miss being flanked and why are there
virtually no casualties on the flank supposedly hit by Wright?  >>

Laurie,

As a somewhat belated comment on this particular, and very valid, point, 
rather overlooked in all this is the matter of another of Webb's regiments, 
the 106th PA.  This was initially in Webb's support line, somewhat to the 
right and rear of the 69th PA, and was moved up closer to the wall, in the 
area of Cushing's battery, during the action.  Any force getting pst the 
right flank of the 69th PA, into Cushing's position, would have been coming 
directly up against the 106th PA.  Yet there is no hint in the regiment's OR 
report, or anywhere else, of any such thing happening.

The 106th PA, BTW, tend to be rather overlooked in general, probably because 
soon after the action was over on the 2nd, it was detached to the 11th 
Corps, and was not present during the repulse of the Charge on the next day. 
(Except for two lonely companies left behind on the Union skirmish line. 
Next time you're on the Emmitsburg Road, stop at the Codori house and see 
the almost equally overlooked monument to the two companies, by the north 
side of the house.  Those two companies really earned their pay at 
Gettysburg.)

Jim Cameron