By Wm. Henry Trescot. Published by John Russell, Charleston, SC, 1870. 65pp. Brown buckram, with black trim & gilt cover lettering, measuring 8 x 5.875”. Ex-library, with front eps bookmark: “Washington County Public Library / a gift from Mrs. S.A. Ward Sr.” / rear eps library card / Pettigrew Regional Library / Chowan, Tyrrell, Washington/ Counties/ North Carolina.” Book exterior is near mint, with no library markings whatever. Interior text exhibits light scattered foxing, while remaining entirely legible.

Johnston Pettigrew commanded a North Carolina brigade at Gettysburg, and on the third day of the battle led the injured Henry Heth’s Division in the famous assault that has become know as “Pickett’s Charge,” or as North Carolinians prefer, the Pickett-Pettigrew Charge. The gallant Pettigrew was mortally wounded in a rear guard action protecting Lee’s withdrawal across the Potomac at Falling Waters, MD. Told that his only chance of survival lay in being left in the hands of Yankee doctors, Pettigrew refused to be left and crossed over to Virginia with his men, dying soon after.

Fine memorial to the promising Confederate brigadier tragically lost during Lee’s retreat from Pennsylvania.

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