Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Pickett's charge at Gettysburg in the American Civil War


The 1922 anniversary re-enactment
A better view from the Ziegler’s Grove/Cemetery Ridge Observation Tower of the Pickett’s Charge Fields. The Codori Farm is in the right background along the Emmitsburg Road. Webb Avenue (no longer existing) circles towards the “Angle” of the stone wall. Hancock Avenue is in the foreground. This view was taken facing southwest in 1903.

Fight for the colors

Union Counterattacks Part 7    "In today’s Union Counterattacks’ post, Licensed Battlefield Guide Rich Goedkoop shows us the area where the 106th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment charged from Cemetery Ridge to the area of the Codori Farm on July 2, 1863."
Panorama of The Angle
 First Minnesota - July 2, 1863
"Overlooking the battlefield at Gettysburg the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry could see their lines crumbling under Confederate attack. At that moment, Union Second Corps Commander Winfield Scott Hancock galloped up, and in desperation ordered the Minnesotans forward."

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