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 Attack on Cemetery Hill (Day 2) - Gettysburg, PA
N 39° 49.390 W 077° 13.732
18S E 309245 N 4410507
This is an interpretive/sign of history which doubles as an orientation table and explains troop movement and location on this former Civil War battlefield.
Waymark Code: WM9WHM
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 10/05/2010
Views: 9
The sign is located on Cemetery Hill and is surrounded by scores of monuments and memorials. The sign explains what went on July, 2, 1863 between Union and Confederate troops.
The SOH reads
Attack on
Cemetery Hill
This hill was occupied by Union forces at noon July 1 and provided rallying point that afternoon for Union soldiers retreating to it from beyond the town.
On the evening of July 2, coordinated with the attack on Culp's Hill to your right, 2,000 Confederate soldiers advanced against this hill from beyond the school building site in your front. Assailed by artillery fire they pressed forward, struck and broke Union infantry lines as the base of the hill, and, after desperate hand-to-hand fighting, captured cannon here at the crest. But they received no aid and soon Union reinforcements swept them from the hill.
2nd Day
Group that erected the marker: Unknown
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
770 Baltimore Pike, Cemetery Hill
Across from Gettysburg National Cemetery
Gettysburg, PA USA
17325
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: Not listed
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