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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.10 (search)
ntemplated charge, and, having the position pointed out to him, he remarked on his return to the line, He would not give twenty-five cents for his life if the charge was made. He further recalls that one of the comrades, M. J. Wingfield, called Monk, turned to him when about half way across the field, saying, Where are our reinforcements? On looking around nothing was in sight, except the three brigades of Pickett about 300 yards in rear of our skirmish line and now subject to a storm of shePickett about 300 yards in rear of our skirmish line and now subject to a storm of shells, tearing great gaps into the lines. The writer then replied, Monk, I don't see any, on which he replied, We are going to be whipped, see if we don't. Alas, for the poor fellow, these were his last words, for a bullet ended his life only a few minutes afterward. The story here told is but a record of the excellence of all of the fifteen regiments of Pickett's division that charged on that historic day.