Jim Martin
Guide Battalion?
Fri Apr 27 10:56:41 2001


After reading Ms. Moorefield's postings below regarding her son's ancestor and the 53rd Virginia Inf.; Armistead's Brigade at Gettysburg, I did a little reading. In the accounts of the "Grand Assault" at Gettysburg it refers to the 53rd Virginia as the "Guide Battalion" of Armistead's Brigade. I have some ideas what this might mean, but I'd like to have a better understanding of this term.

Thanks,

Jim