GDG- Re: We again bore the brunt of the battle at Gettysburg

[DShultz180 at aol.com]

> <<"We again bore the brunt of the battle at Gettysburg.">>
> 
Again? I do believe many other battery commanders who participated at the 
Battle of Gettysburg could just as easily claim that it was they who bore the 
brunt of "the battle at Gettysburg." As passionate as Hall's entrance, execution 
and withdraw were (not to mention he was returned to field of battle after 
been having retired to Cemetery Hill) I can think of many batteries who were 
equal to that title if not more so than the 2nd Maine, I'm taking anything from 
Hall whatsoever.   But the fact he mentioned "the battle at Gettysburg" and NOT 
July 1st lumps into a category like that of the 1st Minnesota being the savior 
of the AOP.   Did in fact Hall's boys bore the brunt of battle at 
Gettysburg?"   Even July 1st is questionable.

EXAMPLE: One cannot exclude Lieutenant Benjamin Wilbur's ( 1st NY Batt L 
(Reynolds/Breck) sections engagement July 1st at the McPherson Farm in the 
afternoon when he led the last Union gun off that field. Yep, that is right, one gun 
(rifle actually) only as one was lost in vicious hand to hand combat after 
having been surrounded by men from Pettigrew's command (Brockenbraugh thus after 
being ordered to hold at all costs.   With he help or 150th PA Wilber cut his 
way out with little more than gratitude from Hunt being placed on him. 

I do believe Hall's claim that he "bore brunt of battle at Gettysburg 'could 
and would be challenged by many veterans who participated in the three-day 
struggle. As for July First ... ????

Dave S.


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