Daring deeds told at Gettysburg after five years of war
The account recalls hand to hand fights on Oak Ridge and Devil's Den, the Round Tops, and Peach Orchard. It honors Hancock staff and Reynolds with vivid scenes of courage, loss, and sacrifice as Union and Confederate forces clash across Cemetery Hill and the surrounding ridges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Ridge
Cemetery Tin
Peach Orchard
Devil's den
Round Tops
Hancock
Reynolds
Chambersburg
Sickles
Emmitsburg
John C. Robinson
First Corps
Army of the Potomac
Meredith
Cutler
Gen. Doubleday
Willoughby Run
Heth
Iron Brigade
Gettysburg
Morrow
Twenty-fourth Michigan
Kelly
Company B
Twenty-fourth
Spaulding
Cemetery Hill
Edwards
Indiana
Brooklyn —Leighty
New York Volunteers
McPherson’s Woods
Davis
Mississippi
Hall
Maine
Seminary Ridge
Carlisle Road
Ewell
York
Harrisburg
Barlow
Schimmelpfennig
Howard
Hoke
Hays
Gordon
Rock Creek
Francis C. Barlow
Regular Artillery
Bayard Wilkeson
Wilkeson
Europe
Fredericksburg
Oak Hill
Lee
Seminary Cupola
Knoll
Sergt. Hammiston
New York Regiment
Coster
Eleventh Corps
Steinwehr
Hummiston
Cattaraugus County
N. Y
Cemetery Ridge
Baltimore
Round Top
Longstreet
Ninth Massachusetts
John Bigelow
Freeman McGilvery
Bigelow
McGilvery
Ligal
Brooke
Cross
Zook
Caldwell
Corcoran and Meagher
Sickless
Col
R. P. Roberts
One Hundred and Fortieth Pennsylvania
One Hundred and Fortieth
Pennsylvania
Thomas
Minnesota
William Colvill
A. S. Williams
Twelfth Corps
Culp’s Hill
Colvill
Little Round Top
8. W. Crawford
Fifth Corps
Nick O
Crawford
Devil’s den
Taylor
H. Weed
Strong Vincent
Patrick H. O. Rorke
C. E. Hazlett
East Cemetery Hill
Wiedrick
New York
Ricketts
Hoks and Hays
Early
Louisiana Tigers
Tigers
Thomas Tate
Third Pennsylvania Cavalry
Hanover Road
Gregg
Baltimore Pike
Gen. Sickles
Wheat Field
Pickett
Meade
Wilcox
Ziegler
Andrew Cowan
New York Independent Battery
Webb
Cushing
Gibbon
Kilpatrick
Merritt
Farnsworth
Plum Run
Emmitsbyad
Sickes
D. McA. Gregg
Stuart
York Pike
Fitz
Wade Hampton
Chambliss
Ferguson
Custer
Irvin Gregg
McIntosh
Rummel
Virginia
Michigan
William &. Miller
Third
Pennsylvania Cavalry
Fitz Lee
Hampton
Spangler House
Chester
Kinney
Pennington
Pennington’s
New Jersey
Miller
E. G. Eyster
Company H
Third Pennsylvania
Eyster
Eysters
Sergt. Gregg
Gen
Tate
Third Cavalry
Taneytown
Warren
Hunt
Grorcre L. Kitwek
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Gettys
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Philadelphia
Winchester