IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 529 
Commending Brigadier General George Stannard and the Second Vermont 
Brigade upon the 144th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 28, 2007 
Mr. WELCH of Vermont submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on Armed Services 
RESOLUTION 
Commending Brigadier General George Stannard and the 
Second Vermont Brigade upon the 144th anniversary 
of the Battle of Gettysburg. 
Whereas in July 1863 the men of the Second Vermont Bri-
gade, commanded by Brigadier General George Stannard, 
reached Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, which was to become 
the greatest battlefield of the Civil War, having only days 
and hours remaining in their nine-month enlistments; 
Whereas when called upon to fight late on the second day of 
the battle, the Second Vermont Brigade helped stabilize 
the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, recaptured a battery 
of artillery, and captured 80 Confederate soldiers; 
Whereas on the morning of July 3 the 13th Vermont, 14th 
Vermont, and 16th Vermont Regiments of the Second 
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Vermont Brigade were positioned in front of the Union 
line; 
Whereas while Confederate artillery shelled the Union posi-
tions for two hours in the early afternoon, the 
Vermonters held firm; 
Whereas when General Robert E. Lee launched his frontal 
assault, known ever after as Pickett’s Charge, the 
Vermonters responded by launching an attack; 
Whereas General Stannard ordered the 13th and 16th Regi-
ments to ‘‘change front forward on first company’’ and 
swing out into a no-man’s land of shot and shell; 
Whereas the sudden onslaught broke the flank of Pickett’s 
Charge, the Confederates themselves saying it was the 
Vermonters’ fire that defeated them; 
Whereas the 16th Vermont launched a second flank attack 
that defeated a supporting Confederate assault; 
Whereas the 14th Vermont held firm its position throughout 
the charge; 
Whereas the 12th Vermont and 15th Vermont Regiments of 
General Stannard’s Second Vermont Brigade, having 
completed the long march to the battlefield, also stood 
ready to fight; 
Whereas a grand statue of General Stannard stands on Cem-
etery Ridge honoring all the Vermonters who fought at 
the Battle of Gettysburg; and 
Whereas Vermonters have long remembered the deeds of 
their sons on those shot-torn fields of Pennsylvania: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That upon the occasion of the 144th anni-
versary of the Battle of the Gettysburg, the House of Rep-
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resentatives honors the heroic actions of the Second 
Vermont Brigade on the greatest battlefield of the Civil 
War, recalling its sacrifices in preserving the Union and 
in giving the United States of America a ‘‘new birth of 
freedom’’. 
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