About 1:00 p.m., the cannonade preceding what became known to history as Pickett’s Charge erupted over the field. When it ended about an hour later, Colonel Gregg received orders to move most of his command east, mass his brigade, and keep a good look out toward Gettysburg. At all times, his skirmishers remained connected to Neill’s skirmishers and kept the Union line intact and unbroken. His men engaged in some heavy skirmishing with Rebel infantry, but they would not be actively involved in the fighting that was to come on the John Rummel farm.23
Been there, done that and seen it
