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250 Signed and Numbered Giclée Limited Edition Prints
50 Signed and Numbered Giclée Canvas Limited Edition Prints

On July 2nd, 1863 John Sherfy’s orchard was the scene of what Colonel E. Porter Alexander of Longstreet’s artillery wrote, “I don’t think there was ever in our war a hotter, harder, sharper artillery afternoon than this.” (Gettysburg Magazine, #17, p. 48) Two Confederate battalions of about 30 guns were pitted against nine Union batteries of about 40 guns with both sides supported by infantry. About 6:00 in the evening, after an hour artillery duel, Major General Lafayette McLaws’ Division of Mississippians, Georgians and South Carolinians advanced under heavy artillery and rifle fire against Brigadier General Charles Graham’s Brigade. Eventually, they pushed the Federals back to Cemetery Ridge. Ordnance Sergeant Henry Wentz (Taylor’s Virginia Battery) placed his guns at his father’s house near the Peach Orchard to fire on the fleeing Federals. Private Alfred Craighead of the 68th Pennsylvania said, “It was a terrible afternoon in that orchard.” (Tucker, High Tide At Gettysburg, p. 279)

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