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  2. Battle of Gettysburg, third day cavalry battles - Wikipedia

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    Farnsworth's Charge, Battles and Leaders. On the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 3, 1863) during the disastrous infantry assault nicknamed Pickett's Charge, there were two cavalry battles: one approximately three miles (5 km) to the east, in the area known today as East Cavalry Field, the other southwest of the [Big] Round Top mountain (sometimes called South Cavalry Field).

  3. Battle of Gettysburg - Wikipedia

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    This 1863 oval-shaped map depicts the Gettysburg Battlefield during July 1–3, 1863, showing troop and artillery positions and movements, relief hachures, drainage, roads, railroads, and houses with the names of residents at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg.

  4. Cemetery Ridge - Wikipedia

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    Overview map of the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. The north-south Union line (in blue) follows Cemetery Ridge. On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Cemetery Ridge was unoccupied for much of the day until the Union army retreated from its positions north of town, when the divisions of Brig. Gen. John C. Robinson and Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday from the I Corps were ...

  5. Gettysburg Battlefield - Wikipedia

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    The Gettysburg Battlefield is the area of the July 1–3, 1863, military engagements of the Battle of Gettysburg in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.Locations of military engagements extend from the 4-acre (1.6 ha) site of the first shot [G 1] at Knoxlyn Ridge [1] on the west of the borough, to East Cavalry Field on the east.

  6. Pickett's Charge - Wikipedia

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    Pickett's Charge was an infantry assault on 3 July 1863, during the Battle of Gettysburg.It was ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee as part of his plan to break through Union lines and achieve a decisive victory in the North.

  7. Here's why Gettysburg battlefield officials won't say what ...

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    Perhaps the most significant case in the Gettysburg area occurred in 1993, when between $25,000 to $75,000 (around $163,256 in today's money) worth of Civil War artifacts were stolen from the ...

  8. Big Round Top - Wikipedia

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    Battle of Gettysburg, third day The July 3 Wells cavalry charge advanced from the west to beyond the Big Round Top spur and engaged the rear of Law's Alabama regiments [11] to carry the hill [12] and earn Wells' 1891 Medal of Honor. [13] By September 1863, David McConaughy had begun to acquire a portion of Big Round Top for battlefield ...

  9. The National Park Service is leasing the historic Michael Bushman and John Slyder houses on Gettysburg battlefield for overnight stays starting on May 24.