BE STRONG OF HEART

THE 2ND DELAWARE DIVISION:
Fought in the Battle of Gettysburg. They participated in the battle for the Wheatfield.

"As the fight was now furious, and my thin line reached from Sugar Loaf Hill {Little Round Top} to the Emmitsburg road, fully a mile in length, I was obliged to send for more re-enforcements to Major-General Sickles, and Major Tremain, aide-de-camp to the commanding general, soon appeared with a brigade of the Second Corps, which behaved most handsomely, and, leading them forward, it soon restored the center of my line, and we drove the enemy from that point..." The melee would confound those who would later attempt to capture the action in words. General Birney stated simply, "My thin lines swayed to and fro during the fight, and my regiments were moved constantly on the double-quick from one part of the line to the other, to re-enforce assailed points."