2 Ibid., 122.
3 Edwin B. Coddington, The Gettysburg Campaign: A
Study In
Command (New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1968:
Revised
and reprinted, Dayton, Ohio: Momingside, 1984), 332;
Taylor,
Warren, 122.
4 Taylor, Warren, 122.
5 OliverW. Norton, TheAttack and Defense of Little
RoundTop:
Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 (New York: The Neale
Publishing
Company, 1913; Reprint, Dayton, Ohio: Momingside, 1983),
263.
6 All three lieutenants were involved in supporting
Warren getting troops on top of Little Round Top. Lieut.
Chauncey Reese
may not have been with Warren and the others when they
initially went up the hill.
7 Washington A. Roebling as quoted in Harry W. Pfanz,
Gettysburg: The Second Day (Chapel Hill, North Carolina:
University
of North Carolina Press, 1987), 201.
8 Warren to Capt. Porter Farley, July 13 1872, in Norton,
Little
Round Top, 309; Warren, as quoted in Taylor, Warren,
122-3.
9 James R. Wright, "Time on Little Round Top," The
Gettysburg
Magazine 2 (January 1990), 5 1; Norton, Little Round
Top, 240.
10 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, 1880-1901) series 1, vol 27, Part 1, 202
(herein after cited as O.R.)
11 O.R., vol 27, Part 3, 488.
12 The exact location of the signal station on Little Round
Top
merits discussion. Many guides and authors assume that
it is the
rocks contiguous to the Signal Corps monument and that
Warren
made his observations several yards away on the rock
where his
statue was erected. In all probability, Hall and company
were
operating on the rack where the Warren monument stands
today.
It appears that the placement of Signal Corps Monument was
influenced by the fact that the Warren monument was
already on
the rock. See E. B. Cope in the The U.S. Veteran Signal
Corps
Association, January 10, 1900. Signal Corps Papers,
Gettysburg
National Military Park Library.
13 Warren to Farley, July 13 1872, in Norton, Little
Round Top,
309.
14 J. Willard Brown, Signal Corps, U.S.A. in the War of
the Rebellion, New York, (Amo Press, 1974, 367; Norton,
Little Round
Top, 263).
15 E.M. Law, "The Struggle for 'Round Top"', in Battles
and
Leaders of the Civil War, ed. Robert Underwood
Johnson and
Clarence Clough Buel, 4 vols. (New York: The Century
Company, 1887-8; Reprint, Secaucus, New Jersey: Castle, 1988),
vol. 3, 320.
16 Coddington, Gettysburg, 740; Pfanz. Gettysburg: The
Second
Day, 506.
17 O.R., 27, Part I., 588-9.
20 Warren to Farley, July 13 1872, in Norton, Little
Round Top,
309-10; several popular accounts indicate that the
signallers
were leaving when Warren arrived at the station but
Warren
himself wrote that they attempted to leave later,
after the station
came under musket fire. After Warren left, the
station was
abandoned by Hall and Taylor because they deemed
remaining
there "impracticable". It was reoccupied later that
evening by
Capt. E.C. Pierce and Sgt. Luther Furst who wrote
disparaging
remarks about Hall's party in their reports and
diaries.
21 Ibid., 309; There is conflicting information
as to whether the
messenger sent to Meade was Chauncey Reese. Based on
evidence as to the whereabouts of the other two aides, it was
probably Reese.
22 Pfanz, Gettysburg, The Second Day, 144-5.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid
25 O.R., 27, Part 1, 138; Richard A. Sauers,
"Gettysburg: The
Meade-Sickles Controversy," Civil WarHistory, vol.
XXVI, No.
3. (Kent State University Press, 1980). 199-201. Both
Sickles
and his post-battle champion "Historicus" denied that
Sickles
refused to provide troops for Little Round Top. In
fact, they
both stated that Sykes delayed over an hour in giving
Sickles the
required support.
26 Norton, Little Round Top, 263.
27 Ibid., 263-264.
28 Pfanz, Gettysburg, The Second Day, 140.
29 Survivors' Association, History of the Corn
Exchange Regiment, 118 Pennsylvania Volunteers,
(Philadelphia: J.L. Smith
Publisher, 1905), 240. Barnes' division had moved
by the left
flank, reversing the order of brigades. The
historian of the Corn
Exchange Regiment lamented that "Tilton's brigade
lost the
opportunity for the high distinction won by
Vincent's in its
magnificent repulse of the assaults on Little Round
Top." Professor Jay Luvaas, of the U.S. Army War College, tells
the story
that one ofhis students tried to detail Tilton's
activity on the 2nd
ofjuly and concluded that Tilton did not
aggressively pursue his
oportunities. Perhaps it is fortunate that the
order was reversed;
Coddington, 400; Report ofthe Joint Committee on the
Conduct
of the War, at the Third Session, Thirty-Seventh
Congress, part
I, 387-88. Sykes's responsiveness on July 2 has
been the subject
of considerable debate. Birney testified before
Congress that
Sykes delayed up to an hour to allow his men to rest
and make
coffee. Warren testified that some of the corps
commanders
11 were not equal to their positions."
30 Norton, Little Round Top, 264.
31 Warren to Farley, July 13 1872, in Norton, Little
Round Top,
310. Warren could not see Vincent's position on the
southern
end of Little Round Top because the ridge along the
crest of the
hill is higher at the center than at both ends.
Also contributing is
the fact that Vincent correctly placed his regiments
on the
"military crest" which is farther yet down the
slope. Warren
must have left the signal station in his search for
additional
troops before Vincent's brigade became engaged.
32 Norton, Little Round Top, 264.
33 Pfanz, Gettysburg, the Second Day, 223.
34 Taylor, Warren, 129.
35 Warren to Farley, July 24 1872, in Norton, Little
Round Top,
311-312.
36 Benjamin F. Rittenhouse, "The Battle of Gettysburg as
Seen
From Little Round Top," The Gettysburg Papers,
vol 11, (Dayton, Ohio:
Momingside,1986), 521.
37 Porter Farley, Address at Dedication of Regimental Monument,
September 17, 1889, in Oliver, W. Norton, "Strong
Vincent and
His Brigade at Gettysburg", The Gettysburg
Papers, 513.
38 Warren to Farley, July 24, 1872 in Norton,
Little Round Top, 312.
39 lbid,
40 Rittenhouse, "Gettysburg", The Gettysburg
Papers, 522.
41 Warren to Farley, July 13 1872 in Norton,
Little Round Top, 31 1.
42 John Gibbon, "The Council of War on the Second
Day" in
Johnson and Buel, Battles and Leaders, vol.
3, 313.
43 Norton, "Strong Vincent", The Gettysburg
Papers, 505.
44 Ibid.
45 Ibid., 506.
46 Ibid.
47 Ibid.
48 Joshua L. Chamberlain, "Through Blood and Fire
at Gettysburg," (Hearst's Magazine [June 1913], reprinted
in The
Gettysburg Magazine 6 [January 19921, 48.)
49 O.R., 27, Part 1, 622-3.
50 Norton, Little Round Top, 265-6.
51 Chamberlain, "Through Blood and Fire", 50.
52 John Michael Gibney, "A Shadow Passing: The Tragic
Story of
Norval Welch and the Sixteenth Michigan at Gettysburg
and
Beyond", The Gettysburg Magazine 6 (January
1992), 33-39;
Coddington, Gettysburg, 744.
53 Coddington, Gettysburg, 395.
54 Farley, Dedication of Regimental Monument" in Norton,
'Strong Vincent", Gettysburg Papers, 513.
55 Ibid.
56 Ibid.
57 Ibid., 514.
58 Brian A. Bennett, "The Supreme Event in its
Existence - The
140th New York on Little Round Top", The
Gettysburg Magazine 3 (July 1990): 21
.
59 Robeling to Farley, December 13 1877, in Norton,
Little Round
Top, 3 3 0.
60 O.R., 27, Part 1, 593.
61 Warren to Farley, October 31 1877, in Norton,
Little Round Top,
316.
62 Norton, Little Round Top, 269: O.R., 27,
Part 1, 593: Pfanz,
Gettysburg, the Second Day, 226-7.
63 Warren to Farley, July 13 1870, in Norton, Little
Round Top,
311.
64 Norton, Little Round Top, 269.
65 Brown, Signal Corps, 262-3.
66 Gibney, "A Shadow Passing", Gettysburg
Magazine, 39.
67 Norton, Little Round Top, 331-2. Norton,
indescribing Vincent's
actions, was careful not to distract from what Warren
accomplished. He did, however, point out a number of things
which
Warren did not accomplish for which he has been given
credit.
68 Coddington, Gettysburg, 400.