The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: "They Fought Like Very Devils"

The Union soldier who uttered those words was referring to Brigadier General Winfield Scott Featherston's Mississippi Brigade of Major General William W. Loring's division, Lieutenant General Alexander P. Stewart's corps, at the Battle of Peach Tree Creek fought on this day in 1864.

Two Female Casualties of Pickett's Charge

After testing the Federal left and right flanks, General Robert E. Lee contrived a plan to attack the Union center.  This futile assault would prove to be the climactic point of the three-day battle of Gettysburg and a costly Confederate defeat.   In terms of the number of killed, wounded, captured, and missing, the South lost over 6,000 soldiers in this charge alone.   At least two of those casualties were women.