“Seeing the Light of Victory Ahead at Gettysburg”

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“Seeing the Light of Victory Ahead at Gettysburg”:

“[General Henry] Heth seems to not have anticipated any enemy at Gettysburg, other than perhaps militia. And so, [General James Johnston] Pettigrew left Cashtown with the 11th, 26th and 47th [North Carolina] Regiments, and a few batteries from the Donaldson Artillery (the 52nd [North Carolina] remained in Cashtown), and marched down the Chambersburg Pike.

It was overcast and intermittent rain as Pettigrew’s brigade made their way through the Pennsylvania countryside to Gettysburg early that morning of June 30, 1863. Little would his men imagine what lay ahead in the days to come – but then it is well that we cannot see the future. No doubt Pettigrew’s troops, their enthusiasm ripened by Confederate victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, their bellies filled by the abundance of Pennsylvania Dutch farms, could only see the light of victory ahead – that singular, crushing defeat would force the damnable Yankees to finally sue for peace, and thus ending this bloodletting and allow these simple boys to return to their homes, mothers, wives and sweethearts.”

(Collett Leventhorpe, the English Confederate, Cole & Foley, McFarland & Co., 2007, page 108)
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“Seeing the Light of Victory Ahead at Gettysburg”