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Photographer: Craig Swain
Caption: Scales' Brigade in Longstreet's Assault of July 3
Additional Description: Scales' Brigade was led by Col. William L. J. Lowrance of the Thirty-fourth North Carolina Infantry during the assault, as General Scales wounded on July 1. Lowrance formed the Brigade behind the regiments of Archer (then under Col. Fry) and Pettigrew (then under Col. Marshall) from Heth's Division. Scales' North Carolina soldiers advanced behind that forward rank, roughly in the center of this view. When the front ranks met stiff resistance at Cemetery Ridge, Brigade was pressed around to the right and hit the Federal lines near the "Angle" directly in front of Captain William Arnold's Rhode Island Battery. This point can be seen in the distance, near the "Copse of Trees" just right of distant center on the ridge line.
Submitted: September 16, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p35767
File Size: 0.330 Megabytes

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