. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . ers Grove;and along the Emmettsburg Road to the right of Sickels line ;here was described the desperate fighting of the old Third Corpson the afternoon of the second, where Birney, Ward, Graham,Carr, and De Trobiand struggled against the overwhelming at-tacks of Longstreet. Beyond,on the left and half a mile tothe front, was pointed outwhere Berdan with his sharp-shooters attacked the advanc-ing columns of Hood ; check-ing him for forty minutes,which gave the Round T
. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . ers Grove;and along the Emmettsburg Road to the right of Sickels line ;here was described the desperate fighting of the old Third Corpson the afternoon of the second, where Birney, Ward, Graham,Carr, and De Trobiand struggled against the overwhelming at-tacks of Longstreet. Beyond,on the left and half a mile tothe front, was pointed outwhere Berdan with his sharp-shooters attacked the advanc-ing columns of Hood ; check-ing him for forty minutes,which gave the Round Topsin possession of the Unionforces. The drive was thencontinued past the Peach Orch-ard, the angle of Sickels line,which was held so tenaciouslyby our troops ; The Loop,through the woods to thefamous Wheatfield,where Gen-eral Zook and Colonel Ellis,of the Orange Blossoms were killed. Thence to the Devils Den, where the party alighted and were photo-graphed. While resting in the shade, under the camera, onecould not help but recall the desperate work that ragedaround and amid these great boulders twenty-five years before ;. THOMAS S. MARTIN, Capt. Co. I, 23d P. v., 3 months service. Killed at Bull Run Aug. 30, 1S62, wliile nth Pa. Vol. Infantry. 328 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT and such boulders they are, piled upon each other, full ofcrevices, just the place a sharpshooter would be at home ;and it was worked for all it was worth by the Johnnies duringtheir stay, in picking off all that came under their fire on littleRound Top. Passing through the Valley of Death acrossPlum Run, full of boulders of all sizes, between Little and BigRound Top, we ascend to the summit of the key to the posi-tion Little Round Top. It was here that Warren, thenEngineer Officer, on Meades Staff, discovered the flank move-ment of Hood—that Hazlett, Colonel ORourke, GeneralsWeed and Vincent Strong, were killed in holding the lecturer described the repulse of Longstreet,
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