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Gettysburg day 2 July 2, 1863.

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1 Gettysburg day 2 July 2, 1863

2 3rd Corps Sent by Meade to relieve Geary’s 12th Corps
Extended the Union flank to Little Round Top Commanded by Daniel Sickles

3 Union left flank

4 Peach orchard Longstreet ordered McLaws to roll up the Union
Barksdale’s brigade of McLaw’s division Union position was astonishing

5 Plan

6 Hood’s Assault Division of Texans and Alabamians
Objective was to take Little Round Top Marshy land along Plum Run makes for slow going

7 Hood’s Assault

8 Devil’s den Outcropping of rocks
Position for Confederate sharpshooters 3rd Corps would have difficulty attacking

9 Devil’s den

10 Little Round top Union Flank
20th Maine, 83rd Pennsylvania, 44th New York, and 16th Michigan “Fix Bayonets”

11 The Fish Hook

12 Wheatfield Kershaw and Timbers attack Wheatfield
Confederates seize the Wheatfield after bloody fighting Sickles wounded

13 Wheatfield Attack

14 Part 2 of Song


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