He Carried a Hatchet Into Pickett_s Charge
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
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Every monument at Gettysburg tells a story. And so it is with the monument to the 13th Vermont Infantry, located near the Copse of Trees, the focal point of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. The statue of the officer on the memorial, Stephen F. Brown, carried an axe into the fight.
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