On July 3, 1863, 12,500 Confederate soldiers charged across open fields in a desperate bid to break Union lines at Gettysburg. Known as Pickett’s Charge, the assault became one of the Civil War’s most ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top lot for bidders at an Ohio auction house this month.
A rare artifact from the Civil War is set to go up for auction later this month in Columbus: a regimental battle flag of the 11th Virginia Infantry, which was captured during Pickett's Charge. The ...
Thousands of Confederate soldiers had just stepped from a tree line about a mile away, moving briskly in massed formations to commence the assault known as Pickett’s Charge, which would finish the ...