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Question 4: From These Honored Dead

April 4, 2021

Detail from "A gallant color-bearer by Thomas Nast, cover illustration of Harper's Weekly, Sept. 20, 1862. H. Alexander, the color-bearer of the 10th New York Regiment, clinging to American flag, after receiving three wounds.
From the Library of Congress.

Eddie Pickett was the first to enlist following the August 9, 1862 Town Meeting. What was he doing when he was shot down on July 1 at Gettysburg?

  1. Running the company in the absence of its captain
  2. Carrying the flag
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  3. Aiding the quartermaster to supply food and water to the troops
  4. Distributing ammunition

A comrade recalled years later, “Orderly Edwin D. Pickett was shot down while grasping the regimental colors, being the third bearer who had carried them to the death."

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