1. Levi W. Baker, History of the Ninth Massachusetts Battery (South Framingham: Lakeview Press, 1888), 261. Baker went on to say he felt the fighting of the 2nd was more historically significant, just as others have occasionally felt that another time and place was the "high water mark of the Rebellion."2. Charles Minor Blackford, quoted in Susan Leigh Blackford, Compiler, Letters From Lee's Army or Memoirs of Life In and Out of The Army in Virginia During the War Between the States (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947), p 188.
3. Report of Col. C. H. Cabell, 1 August 1863, United States War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies 70 Volumes in 128 parts (Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901) (hereafter cited as OR), 1, 27, 2, 376.
4. (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1959).
5. (Hightstown, Md.: Longstreet House, 1987)
6. Glenn Tucker, High Tide At Gettysburg (Dayton: Morningside, 1987); Edwin Coddington, The Gettysburg Campaign (Dayton: Morningside, 1968); Douglas S. Freeman, Lee's Lieutenants: A Study In Command, V III. Gettysburg to Appomattox. .(New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944).
7. Alexander, Military Memoirs of a Confederate. (New York: Scribner's, 1907), 422; George Pickett, Letter to his Wife, July, 1863, in Arthur Crew Inman, Ed., . General Pickett's War Letters To His Wife. (Freeport, N.Y.: Books For Libraries Press, 1971), 73.
8. Quoted in a letter from Wm. H. Palmer to T. M. R. Talcott, in T M. R. Talcott, "The Third Day At Gettysburg," . Southern Historical Society Papers. (Richmond: Southern Historical Society, 1876-1930), (Hereafter cited as SHSP), 1916. 40.
9. James F. Crocker, . Gettysburg - Pickett's Charge and Other War Addresses. (Portsmouth, Va.: n. p., 1915). 37.
10. See James McPherson,. The Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. (New York: Ballantine Books, 1988), p. 647-648.
11. Longstreet to Louis Wigfall, 13 May 1863, quoted in Archer Jones, Confederate Strategy from Shiloh to Vicksburg. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1961), 208.
12. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, 649-651.
13. Lee to Davis, June 10, 1863, Clifford Dowdey and Louis Manarin, Eds., The Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee (Boston: Little, Brown, 1961), 508-9.
14. Quoted in Douglas Southall Freeman, R. E. Lee: A Biography (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945), Vol. III, 58-59.
15. Eppa Hunton, Autobiography of Epra Hunton (Richmond: William Byrd Press, 1933), 87.
16. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 647.
17. Report of Robert E. Lee, [January,] 1864, OR, 1, 27, 2, 320.
18. ibid
19. James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1896), 385.
20. Report of Lieut. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, 1863, OR., 1, 27, 2, 447.
21. Report of Brig. Gen. William N. Pendleton, OR, 1, 27, 2, 351. (emphasis added)
22. Edwin Porter Alexander, "The Great Charge and Artillery Fight at Gettysburg," Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel, Eds., Vol. 11 (New York: Century, 1888), 361.
23. Quoted in Captain Robert E. Lee, Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee (Garden City, N.J.: Garden City Publishing, 1924), 106.
24. James F. Crocker, "Gettysburg - Pickett's Charge," SHSP, 124.
25. Report of Lieut. Col. Thomas Carter, 5 August 1863, OR, 1, 27, 2, 603
26. The only batteries not involved were the 1st Richmond Howitzers, Salem Artillery, Norfolk Light Artillery, 1st Maryland, Allegheny Artillery, and Chesapeake Artillery.
27. R. H. Anderson, SHSP, 111(1879), 52. See also Longstreet's comments in Longstreet's Report, OR, 1, 27, 2, 360.
28. Longstreet's Report, OR, 1, 27, 2, 359-360.
29. Paddy Griffith, Battle Tactics of the Civil War (New Haven: Yale University Press), 140-145. I qualify my statement here with the term I probably" only because no written order, nor a report of one, for a bayonet charge, exists. Lee did not use written orders at Gettysburg. Even if he did not order that this particular tactic be used, all the component elements were utilized. Thus Pickett's Charge was indeed a bayonet charge, whether or not Lee or Longstreet used the term to describe what they wanted to take place.
30. Ibid., 142-143.
31. Ibid.
32. Lee to Hood, 21 May 1863, Wartime Papers, 490.
33. Seddon to Lee, June 10, 1863, OR, 1, 27, 3, 882.
34. Anderson's Report, OR, 1, 27, 2, 614-615.
35. Longstreet's Report, OR, 1, 27, 2, 359-360.
36. Stuart's Report, OR, 1, 27, 2, 697.
37. John Gibbon, Recollections of the Civil War (New York: G. P Putnam, 1928), 140-152.
38. Measurements were made using the Maxon - Bachelder map of 1880.
39. Report of Major D. G. McIntosh, 30 July 1863, OR, 1, 27,2,675.
40. Osborn, quoted in Alexander, Military Memoirs, 427.
41. Report of Brig. Gen. Robert 0. Tyler, 30 August 1863, OR, 1, 27,1, 875.
42. Report of Col. Theodore B. Gates, 4 July 1863, OR, 1, 27, 1, 318.
43. Report of Capt. Emmanuel D. Roath, 15 August 1863, O-R, 1, 27,1, 305.
44. Report of Col. Thomas A. Smyth, 17 July 1863, OR, 1, 27, 1, 465.
45. Report of Captain Patrick Hart, 15th New York Battery, 2 August 1863, OR, 1, 27, 2, 889.
46. R. 0. Sturtevant, Pictorial History of the Vermont Volunteers (Burlington: The Self-Appointed Committee of Three, 1913), 305
47. John Gibbon, Recollections, 148-149.
48. Tully McCrea to John Bachelder, 30 March 1904, Bachelder Papers, New Hampshire Historical Society.
49. Diary of George Griggs, SHSP, VI(1878), 250.