"Your soldier’s heart almost stood still as he watched those sons of Erin fearlessly rush to their death. The brilliant assault on Marye’s Heights of their Irish Brigade was beyond description. Why, my darling, we forgot they were fighting us, and cheer after cheer at their fearlessness went up all along our lines." - General George Pickett in a letter to his fiancée

It was on one of those terrifically hot, motionless country days that only happen in places like southern Pennsylvania that I came upon the striking monument.

Formed of a mass of bronze carved   <<Full Story >>