Samuel C. Sadler of Company E "Ebenezer Grays" of the 56th Virginia Infantry apparently was present at Gettysburg, but I can find no further information available on him in that battle, in which the 56th was engaged in Pickett's charge on 3 July 1863. His Captain, Joseph A. Frazer, was captured at the famous stone wall on Cemetery Ridge. Two second Lieutenants of the company were also casualties: William A. Blick was killed, while John T. Burton was shot in the face, captured, and afterwards died from his wound. The Virginia Pension Records lists other members of the company, and show that besides gunshot wounds, the company also took casualties from Union artillery fired either during the cannonade preceding the assault, or more likely while crossing the field to/from the Union lines. Private Green W. Williams had a minie ball enter his right thigh just above the knee, and passing downward, the ball was extracted just below the knee joint. 5th Sergeant Embren E. Williams had his left arm cut off above the elbow by a shell, while Private John E. Abernathy was wounded in the left groin by a piece of shell (possibly the same shell that wounded Embren Williams. One company of the 56th was said to have been swept away almost to a man by a single shell). Either Sadler participated in the charge and was one of the few lucky ones to escape injury, or else he may have been detailed to another duty that kept him out of the charge. One can stand close to where the company stood prior to the charge because the 56th was the far left regiment in the division, and was posted close to Woolfolk's battery in the corner of the woods that jut out in front of where the Virginia memorial is located today.