. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . t 10:30 a. m. Sedg-wicks Sixth Corps, the largest in the army,after a long night march from Manchester,reached Rock Creek at four p, m. The rapid-ity with which the army was assembled wascreditable to it and to its commander. Theheat was oppressive, the long marches, es- yards, then turns south again, and continues ina direct line towards Round Top, for sevenhundred yards, to George Weikerts. So farthe ridge is smooth and open, in full view ofSeminary Ridge opposite, and distant fromfourteen hundred to sixteen hundred yards. AtWeikerts, this
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . t 10:30 a. m. Sedg-wicks Sixth Corps, the largest in the army,after a long night march from Manchester,reached Rock Creek at four p, m. The rapid-ity with which the army was assembled wascreditable to it and to its commander. Theheat was oppressive, the long marches, es- yards, then turns south again, and continues ina direct line towards Round Top, for sevenhundred yards, to George Weikerts. So farthe ridge is smooth and open, in full view ofSeminary Ridge opposite, and distant fromfourteen hundred to sixteen hundred yards. AtWeikerts, this ridge is lost in a large body ofrocks, hills, and woods, lying athwart the di-rect line to Round Top, and forcing a bendto the east in the Taneytown road. This roughspace also stretches for a quarter of a mile ormore west of this direct line, towardsPlum Run. Towards the south it sinks intolow marshy ground which reaches to the baseof Little Round Top, half a mile or more fromGeorge Weikerts. The west side of this THE SECOND DAY AT GETTYSBURG. 283. ^±*£**^ ^*ia*u^-H m^ MONUMENT OF BIGELOWs NINTH MASSACHUSETTS BATTEK.(FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY TIPTON.) broken ground was wooded through its wholeextent from north to south. Between thiswood and Plum Run is an open clearedspace three hundred yards wide — a continua-tion of the open country in front of CemeteryRidge; Plum Run flows south-easterly to-wards Little Round Top, then makes a bendto the south-west where it receives a smallstream or branch from Seminary the angle between these streams is DevilsDen, a bold rocky hill, steep on its easternface, and prolonged as a ridge to the west. Itis five hundred yards due west of LittleRound Top, and one hundred feet northern extremity is composed of hugerocks and bowlders, forming innumerable crev-ices and holes, from the largest of which thehill derives its name. Plum Run valley is heremarshy but strewn with similar bowlders, andthe slopes of the Round Tops are covered
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