Gettysburg Magazine #48 Section - Calvary Campaign and Peter and the Tree

and Peter and the Tree Children

Hess describes how several Confederate regiments and brigades made a pretense of advancing but then stopped partway to the objective and took cover for the rest of the afternoon on July 20

September 1862

Nearly one in three of those men ended up a casualty of that battle

Grant set his armies toward their next target: the logistical powerhouse of Petersburg

Gettysburg Magazine #48 Section - Calvary Campaign and Peter and the TreeJanuary 2013 Articles by Edwin Bearss, Douglas Douds, Robert Grandchamp, Joseph Stahl, Silas Felton, Bob O'Neill, Sonny Fulks, James Rada, Jr., David Gutknecht, John T. Miller, Jr., Benamin Neely