Describing the makeup of the Union line at Seminary
Ridge in Gettysburg, upon which Confederate forces led in part by Major General
George Pickett would charge:
“The 151st [Pennsylvanian] was an interesting
regiment, containing several companies that had been recruited from academics.
More than a hundred schoolteachers had enlisted in it, and its commander had
been a principal. To the honor of all egg-heads be it known that this
schoolmaster colonel took 466 of his unblooded regiment into the first day’s
battle. He himself fell wounded, and the schoolboys fought so desperately that
next morning they mustered only 121, under a captain.”
- Pickett’s
Charge: A microhistory of the final attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, Part
II, Section 6, by George R. Stewart
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