I think the 14th CT deserves a mention or regiment. You could arm them with Shapes rifles, as that was their equipage at Gettysburg. Their role in defending Cemetery Ridge and and their incredible action capturing and destroying the Bliss house while causing large Confederate casualties deserves some recognition.
On July 1st Gettysburg was reached, and on the 2d the regiment was placed upon the ridge where, at the center of the Second Corps, its brave men, with their sturdy pluck and Sharps’ rifles materially assisted in repulsing Longstreet’s grand charge on the afternoon of the 3d, capturing five colours and more that two hundred prisoners, even though they only numbered about 160. During the forenoon of that day eight companies of the regiment captured the large brick barn and the dwelling-house of William Bliss from the enemy’s sharpshooters, and held the buildings until ordered to burn them, losing several men. This deed was a brilliant and perilous one, as the buildings were nearly one-half mile in front of our line, and the men were exposed, almost from the start, to a heavy fire from sharpshooters in the buildings and from skirmishers and reserves.
It would be cool having the 14th CT.
