. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . day-was the scene of hand-to-hand fighting rarely equaled since long-range weapons were mvented^ Tthe Confederates in fierce conflict fought their way near to this sumnut. but were repulsed Had tlK>^nrH 1 ^could have planted artillery which would have enfiladed the left of Meade s hue. anGettysbu g m ght have been turned into an overwhelming defeat. a. .he r,g . he 1 eder dUrstrethed in the fonn of a fish-hook, with the barb resting on Culps Hill, the cen
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . day-was the scene of hand-to-hand fighting rarely equaled since long-range weapons were mvented^ Tthe Confederates in fierce conflict fought their way near to this sumnut. but were repulsed Had tlK>^nrH 1 ^could have planted artillery which would have enfiladed the left of Meade s hue. anGettysbu g m ght have been turned into an overwhelming defeat. a. .he r,g . he 1 eder dUrstrethed in the fonn of a fish-hook, with the barb resting on Culps Hill, the center a he bend .„hook on Cemetery Hill, and the left (consisting of General Sickles Third Corps) toruung the shank to the^:^^:s fa/^s Round Top. On his own ;:i^7 ^J^^^- ^-^^^r, l !leaving Little Round Top Upon tins advanced . ^.klc . l^^:^^^Emmitsburg road, the Confederates fell in an efior, ... .urn what . -•>;?- ;^*f;J;; ,^.^,Only the promptness of General Warren, who discovered the gap and .1 m , kc> # vmammmm rttgfilutni 4> •*• * ■^ ■^ -^ -^ ^ -w^/. to-hand struggle with a jNIississippi regiment. Bigelow waswounded, and twenty-eight of his hundred and four men wereleft on the bloody field, while he lost sixty-five out of eighty-eight horses, and four of six guns. Such was one of manydeeds of heroism enacted at Gettysbin-g. But the most desjjerate struggle of the day Avas the fightfor the ])ossessi()n of I^ittle Round Toj). Just before the ac-tion began (xeneral JNIeade sent his chief engineer, General ^^arren, to examine conditions on the Union left. Thebattle was raging in the peach orchard A\hen he came to LittleRound Top. It was unoccupied at the time, and Warren(juickly saw the great importance of preventing its occupationliy tlie Confederates, for the hill was the key to the whole bat-tle-ground west and south of Cemetery Ridge. Before long,the engineer saw Hoods division of Ijongstreets corps mo
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