2025 Winter Lecture Series | Laura Elliot

What About Wofford? - The Most Destructive Artillery Impact Documented at the Battle of Gettysburg
with Laura Elliot, Historian
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In 1878, fifteen years after the Battle of Gettysburg, Major General Lafayette McLaws lamented, "One company...had, by the bursting of a shell in its front as it went into the charge, lost thirty men...." Even a decade and a half after that moment on July 2, 1863, the aging general never knew that savage shell was the single most destructive artillery impact of the entire battle. Failing to identify which regiment that devastated company belonged, or brigade for that matter, nearly 150 years after writing of this episode of war, the mystery has finally been solved.
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