GDG- The Bliss Farm Torching

[Batrinque at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/5/2008 7:26:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
Alan.Brunelle at pobox.com writes:

I don't  have the details right here, but I think it was due mostly to a 
professor  in town who recorded /some/ things quite accurately - time & 
weather  conditions. Didn't he put it @ 1:07pm?


I don't recollect about the professor, but EP Alexander wrote that "It  was 
just 1 P.M. by my watch when the signal gun fired and the cannonade  opened."   
And Major Thomas Osborn, commanding the Union XI Corps  artillery, wrote: "At 
precisely one o'clock in the afternoon we saw a puff of  smoke from a gun 
fired from the hills upon our right and front ..."  A  number of other first-hand 
accounts to be found in Rich Rollins's "Pickett's  Charge!" cite the 1 PM 
time (but not all).

Bruce  Trinque
Amston, CT




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