tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306578952081843954.post2295127421420667241..comments2024-02-05T20:43:22.877-05:00Comments on Small-leaved Shamrock: Gettysburg's 150th: "Every name a lightning stroke to some heart"Lisa / Smallest Leafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16811771280872197611noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306578952081843954.post-58673081595950773682013-07-06T16:42:47.612-04:002013-07-06T16:42:47.612-04:00Thanks so much for your comment, Miriam. What a te...Thanks so much for your comment, Miriam. What a tease to learn that your ancestor had a diary in his possession while on the battlefield at Gettysburg and that you can't get your hands on it! It sounds like it might have saved his life that day, so I guess it is wouldn't be in very good condition. What a story, though!Lisa / Smallest Leafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16811771280872197611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306578952081843954.post-32401097003008549372013-07-06T11:39:06.056-04:002013-07-06T11:39:06.056-04:00Thank you for sharing these photos. My 3rd-great-g...Thank you for sharing these photos. My 3rd-great-grandfather Robbins fought at (and survived) Gettysburg. He was with Company I of the "Pennsylvania Bucktails," a sharpshooting regiment (1st PA Rifles).<br /><br />"The Bucktails arrived on the second day of the battle and were stationed behind the stone wall at Little Round Top. There by a deadly fire, they repulsed Hood's drive up the hill and chased their attackers down through the corpse-strewn death valley and to the Devil's Den. In the fighting among the rocks, he was struck by a spent bullet which pierced his diary and a tintype and lodged against one rib (oh, if the family only had that diary today, what tales it could tell us!). Unharmed, Charles crouched down behind a pile of rubbish and there a shell must have exploded, for he woke up in a hospital five miles away with his left leg broken above the ankle."<br /><br />On my mother's side, her great-great-grandfather Strong had an older half-brother, George Washington Strong, who was with Company G of the 137th New York Infantry. He died July 8th, 1863 of wounds received during the battle.Miriam Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12021845886261585678noreply@blogger.com