KERSHAW’S BRIGADE AT GETTYSBURG.

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PEACH ORCHARD.

THE PEACH ORCHARD, VIEWED FROM LONGSTREET’S EXTREME RIGHT ON THE EMMITSBURG ROAD.

m rear of the Peach Orchard. The 2d and 8th South Carolina regimentsJames’s (Third) battalion constituted the left wing of the brigade, and^ere then moving majestically across the fields to the left of the lane leadingto Rose’s, with the steadiness of troops on parade. They were ordered tochange direction to the left, and attack the batteries in rear of the PeachOrchard, and accordingly moved rapidly on that point. In order to aid thisattack, the direction of the 3d and 7th regiments was changed to the left, soas to occupy the stony hill and wood. After passing the buildings at Rose’s,the charge of the left wing was no longer visible from my position; but theMovement was reported to have been magnificently conducted until the can-noneers had left their guns and the caissons were moving off, when the order^vas given to “ move by the right flank? by some unauthorized person, and^as immediately obeyed by the men. The Federals returned to their gunsand opened on these doomed regiments a raking fire of grape and canister, atshort distance, which proved most disastrous, and for a time destroyed theirhsefulness. Hundreds of the bravest and best men of Carolina fell, victims°f this fatal blunder. "While this tragedy was being enacted, the 3d and7th regiments were conducted rapidly to the stony hill. In consequence of"the obstructions in the way, the 7th Regiment had lapped the 3d a few paces,a nd when they reached the cover of the stony hill I halted the line at thee hge of the wood for a moment, and ordered the 7th to move by the rightflank to uncover the 3d Regiment, which was promptly done. It was, no

CONFEDERATES MOVING POSITION OF CLARK’S, PHILLIPS'S

ABOUT DEVIL'S DEN. PEACH ORCHARD. AND BIGELOW’S BATTERIES.

SICKLES’S ANGLE AT THE PEACH ORCHARD, AS SEEN FROM THE ROAD LEADING FROM THEWHEAT-FIELD TO THE PEACH ORCHARD.

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