Gettysburg 1863 Artillery Barrage

On July 3rd the Battery was deployed under a canopy of large trees. When the action commenced with the cannonade at about 1pm on the 3rd, the Battery sent shell and solid shot the Confederate’s way. The firing was heavy and the Battery expended literally all of its shell, spherical case and solid shot.. Only cannister remained and as Lt. Tully McCrea said at the time. “I thought our chances of Kingdom Come or Libby Prison to be pretty good !!” Tully remembered that “We had forty rounds of canister per gun and they got the most of it.”

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