Confederate Attack on E. Cemetery Hill - Gettysburg, PA
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N 39° 49.307 W 077° 13.730
18S E 309245 N 4410353
Decent-sized marker gives visitors a sense of where the Confederates came from in July of 1863 at the beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Waymark Code: WMA8T4
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 12/04/2010
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member monkeys4ever
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The marker is next to the Battery B, First Pennsylvania Light Artillery monument. It is low to the ground and accounts for the movement of troops as they passed under what is now the Arch of the National Cemetery across the street and made their way to East Cemetery Hill. The hill is filled with monuments scattered everywhere. This is one of two similar type signs placed here on the hill. The table reads:

The Confederate Attack
Toward This Position

The cemetery archway ahead is shown behind the guns in
this wartime engraving.

Group that erected the marker: Gettysburg Historic Society

Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
Gettysburg National Military Park
East Cemetery Hill
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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