4. West Confederate Avenue
A quarter-mile stretch of West Confederate Avenue – from the Confederate Letcher Artillery by the McMillan Woods south to the location of the North Carolina and Tennessee state monuments – contains 23 photographically confirmed witness trees. This strip of land also contains the highest concentration of confirmed witness trees on the battlefield.
An oddity presents itself here: the most famous participants of Pickett’s Charge were the Virginians of Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett’s division; but there are no photographically confirmed witness trees – yet – amongst those troops. The Witness Trees interspersed throughout Pegram’s Battalion, Ross’s Battery, and the Charlotte N.C. Artillery (ie. where the North Carolina and Tennessee state monuments stand) instead mark the location from where the other half – the left wing – of Pickett’s Charge commenced: we are talking here of the men of Brig. Gen. J. Johnston Pettigrew’s division, greybacks from North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi, as well as Virginians from Col. John Brockenbrough’s brigade.
- 01 – Letcher Artillery Tree
- Witness Stump A
- 02 – Purcell Artillery
- 03 – Stone Wall Gap
- 04 – Pee Dee Artillery
- 05 – Pegram’s Battalion Tablet
- Witness Tree B
- 06 – Burl Tree
- 07 & 08 – Twin Oaks
- 09 – Old Hickory
- 10 & 11 – Crenshaw’s Battery
- 12 – Scales’s Brigade
- 13 & 14 – Fredericksburg Artillery
- 15-19 – Ross’s Battery Group
- 20 -24 – North Carolina Monument Group
- Pegram’s Battalion Group