Two Confederate Officers Remember Gettysburg: Col. Robert M. Powell, 5th Texas Infantry, Hood’s Texas Brigade & Capt. George Hillyer, 9th Georgia Infantry

Colonel Robert Michael Powell (1826-1916) of the 5th Texas Infantry Regiment wrote extensively about his memories of the surrender ceremonies of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox in April 1865. Hillyer and his men fought across the bloody Rose farm and into the Rose woods, and against Stony Hill.