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Brigadier General Alexander S. Webb, commanding a brigade in Gibbon’s Division: “The enemy advanced steadily to the fence, driving out a portion of the Seventy-First Pennsylvania Volunteers. General Armistead passed over the fence with probably over 100 of his command and with several battle flags.” -- Webb’s battle report, in War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, series I, volume 27, part 1, page 428
Color Bearer William Lawson of the 1st Virginia Infantry: “The color bearer had his right arm shattered by a bullet, and the colors fell from his hand among the dead and dying. J. R. Polak attempted to raise and secure the colors, but was also wounded. Those that were able now fell back and the colors remained where they fell near the angle of the stone wall.” -- Lawson’s account in an article by Charles Loehr in Southern Historical Society Papers, volume 32 (1904), page 36
Sergeant D. B. Easley of the 14th Virginia Infantry: “I mounted the fence and got one glance up and down the line, while General Armistead mounted it just to my left, with only a brass cannon between us. I forgot my company and stepped off the fence with him. We went up to the second line of artillery, and just before reaching those guns a squad of from twenty-five to fifty Yankees around a stand of colors to our left fired a volley back at Armistead and he fell forward, his sword and hat almost striking a gun. I dropped behind the gun and commenced firing back at them till they located me and poured another volley.” -- Easley’s article in Confederate Veteran, volume 20 (1912), page 379
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