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and they will participate, if only from a distance, in the action best
known as Pickets Charge. Nobody watched this battle more closely I suspect then Penn State
trustee Hugh Nelson McAllister. Although he remained in Bellefonte during this fight,
he had many reasons to keep his eye on what was going on down here Gettysburg.McAllister
had helped to raise the 148th Pennsylvania infantry, many of the soldiers were his friends
and his neighbors. He had also worked very hard to get James Adams Beaver named as it's
first colonel. But McAllister had more personal reasons to watch this battle very closely.
His younger brother, Robert participated in this fight. Robert McAllister was colonel
of the 11th New Jersey infantry and on 2 July, in the fighting right behind me in the fields
near the farm in the distance with the with the red barn and the white house Col. McAllister
fell seriously wounded in commanded his regiment. As if that were not enough to concern attorney
and trustee McAllister back and Bellefonte, his young nephew, William McAllister was here
in Confederate Gray serving with Carpenter's Artillery Battery; a Virginia artillery battery
over on Benner's Hill. The Civil War truly was a war that pitted brother against brother
and no one understood that more than Penn State trustee Hugh McAllister.