Episode 27: 3LT Rogers and the 47th North Carolina face CPL Strong and the 121st Pennsylvania on 1 July and 1LT Seville and the 1st Delaware on 3 July at the Battle of Gettysburg

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At the Battle of Gettysburg, 3LT Rogers and the 47th North Carolina on 1 July advance through a wood line into an open field. As they march toward McPherson’s Ridge, a line of infantry appears on its crest, CPL Strong and the 121st Pennsylvania, and unleash a withering fire upon the North Carolinians. On 3 July, following the largest artillery barrage of the war, 3LT Rogers and the 47th North Carolina march in the front rank of a three-division assault known as Pickett’s Charge. After enduring Union Artillery, they approach the stone wall on cemetery ridge and in front of them is 1LT Seville and the 1st Delaware.

Sources used for this episode.

Rogers, J. Rowan. “Additional Sketch Forty-Seventh Regiment.” Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-'65. Written by members of the respective commands, vol. 3, edited by Walter Clark, 103-09. Goldsboro: Nash Brothers Book and Job Printers, 1901. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081797668&seq=11&q1=%22forty-seventh%22&view=1up.

Strong, William W. History of the 121st Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, By the Survivors Association. An Account from the Ranks. Philadelphia: Burk & McFetridge Co., 1893. https://www.loc.gov/item/02016606/.

Seville, William P. History of the First Regiment, Delaware Volunteers, From the Commencement of the "Three Months' Service" to the Final Muster-Out at the Close of the Rebellion. Wilmington: The Historical Society of Delaware, 1884. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002040669989&seq=7&view=1up.

Scott, Robert N. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. ser. 1, vol. 27, pt. 1: Reports. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924077699761&view=1up&seq=3.

Scott, OR. Ser. 1, vol. 27, pt. 2: Reports. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924077728255&view=1up&seq=3.