Does anyone have any idea (outside of money) why Perrin's South Carolina Brigade (1st, 12th, 13th & 14th SC Inf), of Hill's corp, assualt on the afternoon of July 1st 1863 at Gettysburg is not better interpreted by the National Park Service on the battlefield?
Perrin's Brigade appearently was part of Pender's final assualt which broke the southern end of Doubledays federal lines on Seminary Ridge. Yet in a recent visit there were no markers on that part of the field to designate that they were present and engaged in that action in which several of the men were wounded and left at the Lutheran Seminary hospital when Lee retired on July 5th. From my observation it would even appear that where Perrin's Brigade started their assualt from, is in private ownership and not even a part of the National Military Park. Even thought it is about 200 yards from the federal lines and within sight of that position
The only information marker to Perrin's Brigade is placed at it's July 2nd position along Seminary ridge and makes only minor mention of its actions of the previous day.
There are plenty of intrepretive markers on the north end of the driving tour road, about the engagement, along the Chambersburg Pike, between Scales (CS) and Stone and Meredith's (US) brigades, but the engagement between Perrin's and Biddle's (US) brigade and Buford's (US) Cavalry on the south end almost goes unmentioned.
It is my understanding that it was actually the South Carolinians who broke Biddle's lines, which caused Meredith and Stone's Brigade to break. If this is true it would seem that the action along this section of the line was important to the understand of that days events.