Gen. James Longstreet ("Old Pete")
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When the federals turned the corner of the sucken road with terrible slaughter and then menanced
the Piper farm and the entire Confederate center.
Longstreet had only Captian W. B. Miller's battery of the
Washington Artillery, a section of a South Carolina battery and remnants of infantry to stop of the enemy.
Two batteries being silenced, Longstreet's staff, (Sorrel, Goree, Walton and Fairfax)
, manned the cannons while "Old Pete" calmly sat his horse chewing a cigar
and ordering charges and canister. For his coolness under fire and his success in holding
the center Gen. Lee refered to Longstreet as his "Old War Horse".
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- Sharpsburg, (Antietam), Maryland, September 17th, 1862 - |
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