Excerpt from Picture of the Battle of Gettysburg
The better to understand the charge and repulse of Pickett"s Division, which the artist has endeavored to represent in this picture, it will be necessary to say a few words regarding the position of the contending armies, as well as the formation of the ground over which the battle was fought. First, then, the Second Corps (Hancock"s) occupied that part of the line of battle known as the left centre, on the gradual declining slope of Cemetery Hill until near Little Round Top, where the ground becomes quite or nearly level, it then rises, rather abruptly, to the crest of Little Round Top and, with a valley intervening, culminates in Round Top, the extreme left and key-point of the position of the Army of the Union. The observer is placed at the left of Hay"s Division, and on the right of Gibbons (the central Division of Hancock"s Corps). The stone wall, in the middle and foreground of the picture, was occupied in part on the left by a portion of the 71st P. V., Col. Smith. A low stone wall, nearly perpendicular to the first named, extended out some distance towards the Emmettsburg Road to an angle, and thence down towards the left, just in front of a clump of trees. Nearest to the angle or right of this wall was placed the remainder of Colonel Smith"s, 71st P. V., together with two guns of Cushing"s Battery. On the prolongation of this wall was the 69th Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanded by Colonel O"Kane, and reaching to the left of the clump of trees in the centre middle ground of the picture. Then came Halls Brigade, then Harrows, and then Caldwell"s Division of the Second Corps. Still further to the left, toward Round Top, was stationed Doubleday"s Division of the First Corps, in front of which and the line of Batteries was General Stannard"s Vermont Brigade; (their first battle and gloriously did they do their duty). General Dana"s Brigade, of Doubleday"s Division, in line supporting Batteries, and then General Humphrey"s Division, Third Corps, (Sickle"s) in rear and in support of McGilvery"s Brigade of reserve artillery. Further to the left and somewhat further in the rear, De Trobriand"s Brigade; and in advance of the line occupied by the artillery, was placed a Brigade of the Sixth Corps (Sedgwick"s).
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