ANS CS GENERAL LEWIS A. ARMISTEAD AND COL. JAMES H. HODGES, 14TH VIRGINIA – BOTH DIED AT GETTYSBURG, MORTALLY WOUNDED DURING PICKETT’S CHARGE!

ANS CS GENERAL LEWIS A. ARMISTEAD AND COL. JAMES H. HODGES, 14TH VIRGINIA – BOTH DIED AT GETTYSBURG, MORTALLY WOUNDED DURING PICKETT’S CHARGE!

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This August 1862 dated, 3 ¼” x 4 ½” paper, handwritten in ink, features the signatures of Armistead and Hodges, as well as that of Maj. Gen. R. H. Anderson. On the reverse is a small portion of a letter dated, “Camp 14th Va Regt / August 5th 1862.” Nicely displayed in a large riker box along with a color copy of an image of Armistead; an 11 ¼” x 6” version of Don Troiani’s print entitled, “The High Water Mark”, featuring Armistead leading his men during Pickett’s Charge, which his hat on the tip of his sword; and biographical information on Armistead and Hodges.

All three autographs are plainly legible and in nice, dark ink:

Appd. & Respectfully

forwarded

Ja. Gregory Hodges

Co. 14th Va. Regt.

Hd. Qr. 4th Brigade

Andersons Division,

Aug. 6th, 1862,

Appd. & Respectfully

forwarded

L. A. Armistead

Br. Genl.

Respectfully forwarded approved

R. H. Anderson

Major Genl Comd Divn

Recd A. _____  Aug 1_ /62

On the afternoon of July 3, 1863 at Gettysburg, Armistead’s brigade – as part of Gen. George Pickett’s division – took part in the massive CS assault against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge. With his black felt hat on the end of his sword, he led them forward with unflinching gallantry.  Armistead crossed the stone wall at The Angle, with his soldiers following him into a gap that opened near Battery A, 4th US Artillery. Some 150 men poured through the breech;  there Armistead was cut down by gunfire. Within minutes all who had followed him were captured or killed; the high water mark of the Confederacy had been crested and ebbed away. Armistead died two days later in a Union field hospital. His body was eventually recovered and was buried in a family plot in Baltimore.

Col. James G. Hodge was killed at Gettysburg during Pickett’s Charge on July 3rd. He fell four feet in front of the earthworks between where the markers of Companies K and B of the 69th Pennsylvania Infantry stand today on Cemetery Ridge near The Angle. Hodges had been shot multiple times as he approached the wall. After the fighting, Union Chief of Artillery Gen. Henry Hunt went on to the field looking for the body of CS Gen. Richard Garnett, whom he had heard had been killed; he knew Garnett before the war and wished to insure a proper burial for him. He did not find him, but instead came across the body of Col. Hodges, lying on his back atop other fallen dead. Hodge’s body was buried in the field in an unmarked grave in front of the stone wall, alongside men from his brigade. Hodges remains were probably removed on August 3, 1872, in one of the 21 boxes marked "P" and buried in the "Gettysburg Dead" section of Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.

Richard Heron Anderson (born Oct. 7, 1821, Statesburg, S.C., U.S.—died June 26, 1879, Beaufort, S.C.)graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1842 and won the brevet of first lieutenant in the Mexican War, becoming first lieutenant in 1848 and captain in 1855; he took part in the following year in the Kansas troubles. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, he resigned from the U.S. Army and entered the Confederate service as a brigadier general, being promoted major general on July 14, 1862. Except for a few months spent with the army under Braxton Bragg in 1862, Anderson’s service was wholly in the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee.  In the Wilderness campaign, in May 1864, he succeeded to the command of the 1st Corps when Longstreet was wounded. After saving Spotsylvania by a brilliant night march on May 7–8, at the outset of the punishing Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Anderson was given the rank of temporary lieutenant general. He later participated in the defense of Petersburg and Richmond. After the war Anderson became a railroad official in South Carolina and then state phosphate inspector.  [ld][ph:L]

 

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