. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . An Episode ix the Charge of the First Minnesota. MAJOR-GENERAL. ALEXANDER S. WEBB. The Congress to Brevet Major-General Alexander S. Webb, United States army, fordistinguished personal gallantry in the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., .July 3, 1863. This officer had received from the war office six brevets for gallantservices before the Secretary of War awarded this medal of honor for hisconduct on July 3, 1S63. The brevet of •Major-General of
. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . An Episode ix the Charge of the First Minnesota. MAJOR-GENERAL. ALEXANDER S. WEBB. The Congress to Brevet Major-General Alexander S. Webb, United States army, fordistinguished personal gallantry in the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., .July 3, 1863. This officer had received from the war office six brevets for gallantservices before the Secretary of War awarded this medal of honor for hisconduct on July 3, 1S63. The brevet of •Major-General of Volunteers, given August 1, 1864, readsas follows: For gallant and distinguished conduct at Gettysburg, at Bristoe Station, at the Battle of the Wilderness, and at Spottsylvania. 312 THE STORY OF The especial service at Gettysburg. July 3, 1863, is well told andminutely corroborated in the record of the testimony taken before theMaster, by order of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in the suit brought against the Battlefield Me- ~^ niorial Association of Gettysburg by ( , the 72nd Regiment Pennsylvania Vol-. unteers to secure to that regi-ment an advanced locationnear the stonewall at theAngle for the regimentalmonument, which had alreadybeen located by that associa-tion at a point on the crest ofthe ridge, about three hundredfeet in rear of the positionclaimed as a proper locationby the 72nd Regiment. The position of General Welib is distinctly pointed out l)y membersof the several companies of the regiment in line on the left of thecolor company, and the path of the general in his progress along thefront of the regiment, can be readily mapped out from the testimony ofthese witnesses. GeNEKALS AKiMISTiSAD AND WeBB AT GETTYSBURG. AMERICAN HEROISM. 313 When Pettigrew, Pickett and Trimble were sent by Longstreet toseize the clump of trees and the Angle, held by General Webb,commanding the Philadelphia brigade, that officer prepared to receive thisattack by ordering up the 72nd
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