A Confederate Before Pickett's Charge: "The cannon balls plunged through our batteries with a whirl"

What was it like to be an artillerist in action during the bombardment that preceded Pickett's Charge? William S. White, a corporal in the Richmond Howitzers, described the scene in his diary, and what happened after the guns fell silent. Life on the Civil War Research Trail is hosted by Ronald S. Coddington, Editor and Publisher of Military Images magazine. Learn more about our mission to showcase, interpret and preserve Civil War portrait photography at militaryimagesmagazine.com and shopmilitaryimages.com. The program is recorded in Streamyard and produced in Canva. Images for this series are sourced from private collectors who have contributed to Military Images magazine, public collections in the Library of Congress, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Archives, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and many other repositories. For questions about sources, please contact [email protected]. This channel is a member of the YouTube Partner Program. Your interest, support, and engagement is key, and I'm grateful for it. Thank you!