The Monuments and Memorials of the Gettysburg Campaign
Dearing’s Battalion
The artillery battalion attached to Pickett’s Division of Longstreet’s Corps.
Commander: Maj. James Dearing (April 25, 1840 – April 22, 1865). He was a member of the USMA class of 1862, but left prior to graduation when Virginia seceded. He was mortally wounded on April 6, 1865, at the battle of High Bridge, as a brigadier general leading a cavalry brigade