Credit: Paintings by Don Troiani, www.historicalartprints.com
In The Iron Brigade, artist Don Troiani depicts the desperate rear guard fight of the 24th Michigan on July 1st near the Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg. After Confederates shot several of his standard bearers, Colonel Henry A. Morrow raised the colors to rally his men, and was then grazed by a bullet to the head. A small stone marks the scene of the regiment's ferocious first day fighting. The marker reads: 24TH REGIMENT MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER INFANTRY IRON BRIGADE. OF THE 496 MEN WHO WENT INTO BATTLE ON JULY 1, 1863, 99 ANSWERED ROLL CALL HERE ON THE MORNING OF JULY 2 - 3 1863.
