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<p>Lieutenant Generals James Longstreet, Richard S. Ewell, and A. P. Hill into Pennsylvania.
On the eve of the Gettysburg engagement, President Abraham Lincoln relieved Hooker of command. The nation’s safety was placed in the hands of General George B. [G.] Meade. Of his adversary, Lee remarked prophetically: “General Meade will make no blunders on my front.” With eighty-eight thousand men in his command, Meade had a considerable advantage over Lee’s seventy-five thousand.
Of Lee’s seventy-five thousand, none had served with more courage or devotion that those from Mississippi. At Gettysburg, none were to fight more gallantly than the sons of the Magnolia State.
The organization of the Mississippians into the three corps of Lee’s was as follows:
Longstreet’s Corps – Lafayette McLaw’s Division; Brigade of Brigadier General William Barksdale – Thirteenth Regiment, Colonel J. W. Carter; Seventeenth, Colonel W. D. Holder; Eighteenth, Colonel Thomas M. Griffin; Twenty-first, Colonel B. G. Humphreys.
A. P. Hill’s Corps – Robert H. Anderson’s Division; Brigade of Brigadier General Carnot Posey – Twelfth Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel M. B. Harris, Major S. B. Thomas; Sixteenth, Colonel Samuel Baker; Nineteenth, Colonel N. H. Harris; Forty-eighth (including Second Battalion), Colonel J. M. Jayne.
A. P. Hill’s Corps – Harry Heth’s Division; Brigade of Brigadier General Joseph R. Davis – Second Regiment, Colonel</p>
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