captain beacham of the 23rd gave us a good comment.isoners formed in columns by force consisting of alternate files of colored soldiers and commissioned officers. highest rank, as i said, going on down. as there were about 500 colored prisoners and about 1,100 white officers and soldiers, the greater part of the column presented a fantastic and variegated appearance that i am free to confess was amusing. many white troops sent to prisoner of war camps including at andersonville, but captain beacham and lieutenant bowley who survived their prison experiences won't be going to, you know, the more famous places. beacham spends four months in jail in columbia, south carolina, where he admits that they actually were decently treated in columbia as they had not been in petersburg. black troops, however, won't get the same sort of treatment. and this representation of shokko bottom in richmond will be important in a moment. interesting story i found -- we'll talk more about this if you want to. john haskel, confederate artillerist, out there,

captain beacham of the 23rd gave us a really good comment about it.soners formed in columns by force consisting of alternate files of colored soldiers and commissioned officers. highest rank, as i said, going on down. as there were about 500 colored prisoners and about 1,100 white officers and soldiers, the greater part of the column presented a fantastic and variegated appearance that i am free to confess was amusing. many white troops sent to prisoner of war camps including at andersonville, but captain beacham and lieutenant bowley who survived their prison experiences won't be going to, you know, the more famous places. beacham spends four months in jail in columbia, south carolina, where he admits that they actually were decently treated in columbia as they had not been in petersburg. black troops, however, won't get the same sort of treatment. and this representation of shockoe bottom in richmond will be important in a moment. interesting story i found -- we'll talk more about this if you want to. john haskel, confederate artillerist, out there,

captain beacham of the 23rd gave us a good comment.s formed in columns by force consisting of alternate files of colored soldiers and commissioned officers. highest rank, as i said, going on down. as there were about 500 colored prisoners and about 1,100 white officers and soldiers, the greater part of the column presented a fantastic and variegated appearance that i am free to confess was amusing. many white troops sent to prisoner of war camps including at andersonville, but captain beacham and lieutenant bowley who survived their prison experiences won't be going to, you know, the more famous places. beacham spends four months in jail in columbia, south carolina, where he admits that they actually were decently treated in columbia as they had not been in petersburg. black troops, however, won't get the same sort of treatment. and this representation of shokko bottom in richmond will be important in a moment. interesting story i found -- we'll talk more about this if you want to. john haskel, confederate artillerist, out there, has m

captain robert beacham of the 23rd u.s.calls only one drill between june 22nd and july 29th and that there was, as he said, nothing specific to this particular battle maneuver but they were, as he 15isaid, most common and simple maneuvers. others recall special training. it was remembered time after time did my regiment go through the imaginary vanadvance, the t to the left. every officer and every private knew his place and what he was expected to do. so in short, i'll say we don't know if they were trained or not. what we do know is the confederates figure out what's going on with the union mining activity just five days after the federals have started. this man is to -- on the confederate side be praised for lucky guessing. many of you in this audience, your attention to gettysburg know him. he's expecting to see the siege operations of 19th century warfare to be taking place trying to extend union lines, get them closer to the confederates, but he's not noticing that. he notices, however, that there's intense sharp shoo