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Railroad cut looking NW toward the Catoctins. At approximately 10 a.m. on July 1, the brigade of Lysander Cutler, from the I Corps division of James S. Wadsworth, deployed near the cut on McPherson's Ridge with the 76th New York and 147th New York and 56th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiments deployed north of the cut and the 84th New York (14th Brooklyn) and 95th New York Infantry Regiments south ...
The Complete Gettysburg Guide. New York: Savas Beatie, 2009. ISBN 978-1-932714-63-0. Pfanz, Harry W. The Battle of Gettysburg. National Park Service Civil War series. Fort Washington, PA: U.S. National Park Service and Eastern National, 1994. ISBN 0-915992-63-9. Pfanz, Harry W. Gettysburg – The First Day. Chapel Hill: University of North ...
After moving back to Gettysburg in 1856, attorney Edward McPherson inherited a farm in 1858 [citation needed] which had 66.5 acres (26.9 ha) by 1863. [13] On June 30, 1863, John Buford 's Union cavalry camped 400 yd (370 m) east of the ridge prior to the Battle of Gettysburg.
Overview map of the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. As Longstreet's left division, under Major General Lafayette McLaws, advanced, they unexpectedly found Major General Daniel Sickles's III Corps directly in their path. Sickles had been dissatisfied with the position assigned him on the southern end of Cemetery Ridge.
Pickett's Charge, subtitled "A Game of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1–3, 1863", is a board wargame published by Yaquinto Publications in 1980 that is a tactical simulation of the three-day Battle of Gettysburg.
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Old veterans clasping hands across the Angle at the 1913 Gettysburg reunion.. The Angle [2] (Bloody Angle colloq.) is a Gettysburg Battlefield area which includes the 1863 Copse of Trees used as the target landmark for Pickett's Charge, the 1892 monument that marks the high-water mark of the Confederacy, a rock wall, [3] and several other Battle of Gettysburg monuments.
Map showing the position of Big Pipe Creek in relation to Gettysburg On June 30, Meade's headquarters advanced to Taneytown, Maryland , and he issued two important orders. The first directed that a general advance in the direction of Gettysburg begin on July 1, a destination that was from 5 to 25 miles (8 to 40 km) away from each of his seven ...