On the afternoon of July 2, 1863, Colonel Harrison Jeffords of the 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry ... rising to command his brigade just prior to Gettysburg. Vincent realized the strategic ...

At Fredericksburg, Pickett's men cut down the courageous "Irish brigade." But his luck changed for the worse at Gettysburg, where Pickett lost a staggering number of his own men; nearly all the ...