1. James Longstreet, "Lee in Pennsylvania", in The Annals of the War Written by Leading Participants North and South (Philadelphia: The Times Publishing Company, 1879; reprint, Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1988), p. 424.
2. Biographical information on G. T. Anderson: Confederate Veteran, vol. 9 (1901): 418; Ezra Warner, Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959), pp. 6-7; Richard N. Current, ed., Encyclopedia of the Confederacy , 4 vols. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), 1:30; Clement A. Evans, ed., Confederate Military History , 17 vols., extended ed. (Atlanta: Confederate Publishing Company, 1899; reprint, Wilmington, North Carolina: Broadfoot Publishing, 1987), 7:391-92, 8:461-62.
3. Robert K. Krick, Lee's Colonels: A Biographical Register of the Field Officers of the Army of Northern Virginia , 4th ed. (Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1992), p. 374.
4. Regimental strengths, as reported on June 30, 1863, provided in John W. Busey and David W. Martin, Regimental Strengths and Losses at Gettysburg (Hightstown, New Jersey: Longstreet House, 1986), p. 135; Biographical information provided in Krick, Lees Colonels, pp. 152, 217, 240, 244-45, 249, 284, 374, 393.
5. John A. Everett to his mother, June 21, 1863, file #58, letter #8, Emory University Special Collections.
6. Samuel Brewer letter, June 11, 1863, in Candler H. Thaxton, My Dear Wife from Your Devoted Husband: Letters from a Rebel Soldier to his Wife (Warringtown, Florida: privately printed, 1968).
7. George Hillyer,
Battle of Gettysburg, Address Before the Walton County Georgia Confederate Veterans , August 2, 1904, Walton Tribune.
8. Joseph B. Kershaw to John B. Bachelder, The Bachelder Papers: Gettysburg in Their Own Words , 3 vols. (Dayton, Ohio; Morningside, 1994-95), 1:454; Bachelder Map [2] J-23/24.
9. Evander M. Law, "The Struggle for Round Top" , in Robert U. Johnson and Clarence C. Buel, eds., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War , 4 vols. (New York: The Century Company, 1884-1888; reprint, New York: Castle Books, 1956), 3:320; John Purifoy, "Longstreet's Attack at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863", Confederate Veteran , vol. 31 (1923): 292; Harry W. Pfanz, Gettysburg: The Second Day (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987), pp.159-160; United States War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies , 70 vols. in 128 parts (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880Ž1901), series 1, vol. 27, pt. 1, pp. 396-97. (Hereafter cited as OR. All subsequent references are to series 1.)
10. Hillyer, Battle of Gettysburg , p. 5.
11. George T. Anderson to John B. Bachelder, December 4, 1894, The Bachelder Papers , 3:1871.
12. OR , vol. 27, pt. 2, p. 405.
13. Travis Hudson, "Soldier Boys in Gray: A History of the 59th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment", The Atlantic Historical Journal , vol. 23, no. 1 (Spring 1979): 56.
14. Hillyer, Battle of Gettysburg , pp. 5-6.
15. OR , vol. 27, pt. 2, p. 399; Pfanz, Gettysburg: The Second Day , pp. 175-76, 247; Gary Kross, "Rebel Yells on Both Flanks", Blue & Gray Magazine , vol. 5 (March 1988): 24.
16. Hillyer, Battle of Gettysburg , p. 6.
17. George W. Verrill, "The Seventeenth Maine at Gettysburg and in the Wilderness", in Ken Bandy and Florence Freeland, comps., The Gettysburg Papers (Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1986) p. 566.
18. Pfanz, Gettysburg: The Second Day , p. 251.
19. Verrill, The Seventeenth Maine at Gettysburg and in the Wilderness , p. 267.
20. OR, vol. 27, pt. 2, pp. 403, 407; Pfanz, Gettysburg: The Second Day , p. 247.
21. OR , vol. 27, pt. 2, p. 401.
22. Ibid., pp. 401, 403; William Barnes Jordan, Jr.,
"Gettysburg and the Seventeenth Maine", Gettysburg Magazine , no. 8 (January 1993): 49-50.
23. OR , vol. 27, pt. 2, p. 401.
24. P. Regis de Trobriand, Four Years With the Army of the Potomac , trans. George K. Dauchy (Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1889) pp. 495-96; George W. Verrill, "The Seventeenth Maine at Gettysburg and in the Wilderness", pp. 567-70; OR, vol. 27, pt. 1, pp. 159-60.
25. Anderson to Bachelder, March 15, 1876 and December 4, 1894, The Bachelder Papers, 1:449-50, 3:1871.
26. Hillyer, Battle of Gettysburg, pp. 7-8.
27. Ibid., p. 8.
28. OR, vol. 27, pt. 1, pp. 607-8, 610-11.
29. Ibid., p. 520; George W. Verrill to Charles B. Merrill, The Bachelder Papers, 2:1012-14; John Haley to John B. Bachelder, The Bachelder Papers, 2:996.
30. OR, vol. 27, pt. 1, p. 587.
31. Ibid., p. 522.
32. Charles A. Hale, "With Colonel Cross in the Gettysburg Campaign", Miscellaneous Papers, John Rutter Brooke Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, p. viii.
33. D. Scott Hartwig, "No Troops on the Field Had Done Better: John C. Caldwell's Division in the Wheatfield, July 2, 1863", in Gary Gallagher, ed., The Second Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership (Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1993), pp. 151-52; Eric Campbell,
"Caldwell Clears the Wheatfield", Gettysburg Magazine, no. 3 (July 1990): 35; Hale, "With Colonel Cross in the Gettysburg Campaign", p. xii.
34. Hartwig, "Caldwell's Division in the Wheatfield", pp. 152-59; Campbell,
"Caldwell Clears the Wheatfield", pp. 39-41; OR, vol. 27, pt. 2, p. 368.
35. OR, vol. 27, pt. 1, p. 382, 400.
36. Ibid., p. 400; Col. W. W. White reported fifty-one missing from the brigade in his report. The bulk of these must have been captured during this fighting, as Colonel Brooke's report also indicated a great number were captured. OR, vol. 27, pt. 2, p. 397.
37. Ibid., pt. 1, pp. 400-401, 611-12.
38. Ibid., pp. 379-80, 645.
39. Ibid., p. 401; Pfanz, Gettysburg: The Second Day, pp. 286-88; George W. Whipple, "Memories of George W. Whipple", p. 21, Typescript, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.
40. OR, vol. 27, pt. 1, pp. 612, 645.
41. Ibid., pt. 2, pp. 399-400; Hillyer, Battle of Gettysburg, p. 9.
42. OR, vol. 27, pt. 2, pp. 397, 400, 403; ibid., pp. 401-2.
43. Ibid., pt. 1, pp. 653-54, 657.
44. Hillyer, Battle of Gettysburg, pp. 9-10.
45. Anderson to Bachelder, March 15, 1876, The Bachelder Papers, 1:450.
46. Busey & Martin, Regimental Strengths and Losses, pp. 135, 280, 298, 301.