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Photographer: Craig Swain
Caption: Lane's Brigade Advance on July 3
Additional Description: Looking east from Confederate Avenue toward Cemetery Ridge. Lane's Brigade was a part of the left side of what became known as Pickett's Charge, along with Brockenbrough's (then under Col. Robert Mayo) and Davis' Brigades from Heth's Division (then under Pettigrew). Those two brigades were flanked by fire from a lone Federal regiment, the 8th Ohio, and fell back, exposing Lane's men. Undaunted, the North Carolina regiments pressed forward and reached the stone wall just south of Ziegler's Grove at the Bryan House. There the Brigade was flanked by the 108th and 126th New York. In this view, the Brigade's line of march was across the open ground just left of center. A white house on the left is the Bryan House, roughly the left flank of Lane's line when reaching Cemetery Ridge.
Submitted: September 15, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p35745
File Size: 0.330 Megabytes

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