Pickett's Charge: The Last Attack at GettysburgPickett's Charge is probably the best-known military engagement of the Civil War, widely regarded as the defining moment of the battle of Gettysburg and celebrated as the high-water mark of the Confederacy. But as Earl Hess notes, the epic stature of Pick |
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The fence extending northward from the angle 206 | |
Looking toward the angle from approximately the position of Stannards brigade 240 | |
The angle in the stone fence from Smyths position 260 | |
The copse from the Confederate position just outside the angle 270 | |
David Lang 305 | |
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11th Virginia 69th Pennsylvania advance Alexander Andrew Cowan angle Armistead army artillery artillery fire assault attack August Bachelder Papers battery Battle of Gettysburg battlefield bombardment Brig Brockenbrough’s bullet campaign Capt Cemetery Hill Cemetery Ridge Charles Charles Pickett command Company comrades Confederate copse Daniel Papers Davis’s Emmitsburg Road enemy Eppa Hunton Federals fighting flag forward front Fry’s Garnett George Gibbon GNMP ground gunners guns Hall’s Hancock Harper’s Ferry Haskell Hays’s infantry James John July July 17 Kemper Kemper’s brigade killed Ladd and Ladd Lane later Lee’s Little Round Top Longstreet Marshall’s Massachusetts Meade North Carolina Pennsylvania Pettigrew’s division Philadelphia Brigade Pickett’s Charge Pickett’s division rear Rebels regiment retreat right wing rode Second Corps Seminary Ridge SHC-UNC shell shot skirmishers soldiers staff officer Stannard stone fence Thomas told took Trimble Trimble’s troops Union line Union position Vermont Webb Wilcox William wounded Yankees yards York