Nine Months to Gettysburg: Stannard's Vermonters and the Repulse of Pickett's Charge

The story of the brave Vermont brigade that helped win the Civil War.
On the Fourth of July, 1863, reporting on the aftermath of the Civil War’s most crucial battle, the New York Times wrote: “A Vermont brigade held the key position at Gettysburg and did more than any other body of men to gain the triumph which decided the fate of the Union.” The citizen soldiers led by General George J. Stannard helped stabilize the line, and then shattered the right flank of Pickett’s famous charge just whe…