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Location: GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK-HANCOCK AVENUE

City: GETTYSBURG

State: Pennsylvania

Zip Code: 17325

Type of Memorial: Stone Carving Memorials

Year Dedicated: 1892

Access: Public

Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR

Photograph By: CRAIG SWAIN


PARTICIPATED NEAR THIS POINT IN ACTION ON JULY 2ND. PICKETED THIS LINE THAT NIGHT-HELD. SAME AS SKIRMISHERS UNTIL ATTACKED BY PICKETT’S DIVISION JULY 3D. RALLIED HERE AND ASSAULTED HIS FLANK TO THE RIGHT 400 YARDS-THEN CHANGING FRONT CHARGED LEFT FLANK OF WILCOX’S AND PERRY’S BRIGADES AT THIS POINT CAPTURED MANY HUNDRED PRISONERS AND TWO STANDS OF COLORS.


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