One of four brigades in McLaws’s Division of Longstreet’s Corps.

Commander: Brig. Gen. William Barksdale (August 21, 1821 – July 3, 1863). Four-term Congressman from Mississippi. Barksdale was mortally wounded leading his brigade on July 2 and died the next morning at a Union field hospital.

Strength: 1,620

Losses: 804; 156 killed, 470 wounded, 178 missing.

Monuments and Memorials of Barksdale’s Brigade