The 13th U.S. Infantry took heavy casualties as they came up from a ravine and crossed a hill. “Onward to the charge was the motto, and most gallantly did we charge,” wrote one. At times subject to crossfire from Stockade Redan and the 27th Louisiana Lunette, these army regulars struggled to within a stone’s throw of the redan before being forced to take cover “to keep from being annihilated.” Survivors counted some fifty-five holes in their regimental flag, and one noted, “Just after dark the rebels set a house on fire to keep us from getting our killed and wounded off the battlefield.”
MAY 19, 1863 failed assault
