. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . y efforts and to perform deeds of valor whichhave made the 2nd brigade of the 2nd division of the 2nd corps (the oldPhiladelphia brigade) famous ever since. We held the Clump of Trees on Cemetery Ridge about nine hundredyards south of Zeiglers Grove and opposite to the center of Lees north and southline posted on Seminary Ridge. At that point our line was exactly one milefrom that of the Rebels. We were nearly midway between the town ofGe
. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . y efforts and to perform deeds of valor whichhave made the 2nd brigade of the 2nd division of the 2nd corps (the oldPhiladelphia brigade) famous ever since. We held the Clump of Trees on Cemetery Ridge about nine hundredyards south of Zeiglers Grove and opposite to the center of Lees north and southline posted on Seminary Ridge. At that point our line was exactly one milefrom that of the Rebels. We were nearly midway between the town ofGettysburg and Little Round Top and at a point where a gentle fall of theland made us easy of access while at the same time our line stood in boldrelief against the eastern sky. 328 THE STOKY OF The Rebel artillery could reach with ease the Chimp of Trees and itwas so conspicuous that it was eagerly seized as the point of Hnal attack afterit had been determined that to capture it was to seize the Taneytown roadand the Baltimore pike and to cut into the line of the Army of the Potomacat the neck of the fish hook, the point of which held by that brave old. The Bloddy Angle at Gettysburg. soldier General George S. Greene of the Twelfth Corps, was directly in my the front of the Clump of Trees was a low stone wall whichcontinued toward the north for about six hundred feet and then turneddirectly east for two hundred and fifty feet, whence it again took the north-erly direction toward Zieglers Grove. This first angle has, since that day,been called the Bloody Angle, and it was at a point midway between the AMERICAN HEROISM. 321) Clump of Trees; and the turn in the stone wall, that LieutenantAlonzo Heresford Cushing, commanding Battery A, 4th United States Artillerymet the now world-renowned, heroic death. battery held the ridge from the Clump of Trees to the rearangle of the low stone wall. To its left and rear was posted the 72nd Regi-ment of the Pennsylva
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