Tree on top of Devils Den

Gettysburg
The Second Day

Tree on top of Devils Den

On the Union left flank in the afternoon of the second day of the battle of Gettysburg.

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.Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward, Brigade commander: “[T]he brigade [took] position at right angles with the Emmitsburg Road, the left resting on a rocky eminence near Round Top or Sugar Loaf hill, that being the extreme left of the army...Captain Smith’s battery of rifled guns, posted on the eminence on my left, opened on the advancing enemy.”” Ward’s battle report, in War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, series I, volume 27, part 1, page 493

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