The Florida Brigade at Gettysburg | Gettysburg Battlefield Walk | Gettysburg Day 2

The Florida Brigade consisted of the 2nd, 5th and 8th Florida Infantry regiments. It made up one of the five brigades of Major General Richard H. Anderson's Division and was then smallest brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia. On July 2nd 1863, the boys from Florida would take place in the Confederate attacks along Cemetery Ridge. The Florida Brigade went into the attack minus its commander, General Perry who caught typhoid fever prior to Gettysburg. Colonel David Lang of the 8th Florida was now in command of the 700 Floridians. The Florida brigade advanced across nearly 1 1/2 miles of open ground and slammed into Union infantry on cemetery ridge. They were eventually driven back by Union reinforcements. In this episode we will walk the in the footsteps of the Florida Brigade.
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