Ohio Gun at Gettysburg

Gettysburg
The Second Day

Ohio Gun at Gettysburg

Howitzer at the site occupied by one section of Battery L, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, on the northwest slope of Little Round Top.

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Captain Frank Gibbs, commanding Battery L, 1st Ohio Light Artillery: “The rocky nature of the ground compelled us to unhitch our horses and place our guns in position by hand. . . . We had hardly placed our guns in position when the Fifth Corps was forced back by a terrific charge of Longstreet’s corps, and came rushing through us, but began rallying on us as soon as they understood matters. Our front was hardly clear when the irregular, yelling line of the enemy put in his appearance, and we received him with double charges of canister, which were used so effectively as to compel him to retire. So rapidly were the guns worked that they became too hot to lay the hand on.” -- Gibbs’ battle report, in War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, series I, volume 27, part 1, page 662

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