 Maffett soon escaped his captors in the confusion of battle and what happened to his sword is unrecorded.In June 1863, the South Carolinians, a part of the First Corps of James Longstreet, were camped near the small Pennsylvania college town of Gettysburg.On July 2, the second day of the battle, the soldiers of Kershaw's Brigade leapt over a stone wall in an unsuccessful attempt to silence Federal artillery along the Wheatfield Road.