Part 6, Against Pennsylvanian Peter Gold at Chancellorsville
It’s the Story
A number of local men who fought in the Civil War were in the same battles as R. P. Jennings – the Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania Courthouse, Antietam, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor. However, of all the old soldiers of the Union, Peter Gold was the most likely to have come face to face with Jennings. Gold’s and Jennings’ companies each would have had perhaps 100 men and we know those two units collided on…