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Kemper's Brigade
-- Second Battle of Manassas --
August 30, 1862 5:30 p.m.
Kemper's Division, Right Wing (Longstreet)
Army of Northern Virginia, CSA
Kemper's Brigade
Col. Montgomery D. Corse
1st Virginia - 11th Virginia
7th Virginia - 17th Virginia
24th Virginia
"Above us, on a gentle rise, was a battery - the guns hidden from view by a dense curtain of smoke. Nothing could be seen but the flash of the guns. 'Form into line men! Forward! Charge that battery!' The veil of smoke slowly lifted, and we could see the muzzles of the guns. Then came a horrid roar and dull shock that seemed to shake the very earth, and then the dull thud of the balls as they tore through the bodies of our men. I looked around me. The ground was covered with the mangled dead and dying."
- Pvt. Alexander Hunter, 17th Virginia Infantry |