A Daughter of Maryland — page 180: what you’re looking at

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A DAUGHTER OF MARYLAND. 157 CHAPTER XVIII. PICKETT’S FAMOUS CHARGE. ‘‘We tried very hard to stop Pickett’s men from captur- ing the breastworks of the enemy, but couldn’t do it. “R. E. GEE.” IMMEDIATELY after the battle of Antietam, or Sharpsburg more correctly speaking, Lieutenant Berners, who had done gallant service throughout that sanguinary fight, as a result of his quarrel with Captain Graham at Sylvania, ‘withdrew froin Stuart’s cavalry to join the 38th Virginia regiment, then commanded by Colonel Edmonds and belonging to’ General Armistead’s brigade of the immortal Pickett’s Division of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was given charge of a company, and thus by that little incident his whole fortune was affected and his name > became linked with the honor and glory of Pickett’s men. Captain Berners did his duties nobly in all the battles and campaigns that followed until that memorable- charge at Gettysburg which decided the destiny of the South, as well as the fates of those with whom we are most interested. The season following the first invasion of Maryland proved one of intense activity. Recruiting was going on in every direction and campfires gleamed in, all quarters. Hearthstones were deserted and loved ones Separated in answer to that stern summons that knows no favor of per- sons, that respects no family tie. Inspired by his previous successes, and encouraged by the numerous additions he was constantly receiving to his forces, the Confederate chieftain Eomicbooks.c