Reminiscences of Big I

Reminsences of Big I by Lieut William Nathaniel Wood Monticello Guard, Company A 19th Virginia Regiment Confederate States of America Edited by Bell Irvin Wiley, McCowat-Mercer Press 1956, Hardback.

” Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg probably has been the theme of more writing than any other action of the Civil War. Common soldiers, nurses, surgeons, journalists, foreign observers, local residents and generals have all recounted their experiences and impressions. But relatively few company commanders who participated in that grand but futile assault have left a record of what they saw and did. Indeed, and especially on the Confederate side, the role of junior officers as told by themselves, constitutes a major gap in Civil War literature. Because of this fact, William Nathaniel Wood’s reminiscences of Gettysburg and the dozen other major battles in which he participated is of considerably greater value than the usual memoir. “