High Water Mark At Gettysburg 11th Miss

I have been reading a little book that I picked up from "Books on the Square" in Oxford Mississippi. It is called "The University Greys." So many young men left Ole Miss in 1861 to fight in Virginia the place was pretty much put on hold for the duration. These were Mississippi's best and brightest, future professors, lawyers, physicians etc. On July 3, 1863 they were part of Pickett's charge. They were Co A 11th Miss on the left flank being decimated by 32 union cannon from their left. As part of Heath's Div they made the rock wall just as Pickett's men did. Some crossed the wall against four lines of the enemy. First hand accounts by surgeons, former soldiers and officers place their advance exactly 47 yards past the high water mark that Pickett claimed. A map of the offset wall is proof. But it was Pickett's charge even though there were more from other divisions, and it was Virginia publishers who wrote the history. In three days fighting the University Greys with only 31 men remaining in the 11th lost 14 killed and 17 wounded. There are three glass panels in the Geology building at Ole Miss. They are in one window depicting the Greys.