Gettysburg Greg
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Jun 6, 2010
- Location
- Decatur, Illinois
When the guns and caissons of Bigelow's 9th Mass Battery were attempting to escape the chaos in the corner of the Trostle farmyard, one of the guns overturned in the gate blocking the other guns. The left gun made its escape by breaking through the rock wall lining the field. Captain Bigelow pointed out where the gun went through the wall on his hand drawn map shown on top, see the blue arrow. As seen in my photograph on the bottom there is a break in the wall at this very location today. Is this the work of Bigelow's men frantically trying to escape with their gun? Probably not, but it does correspond perfectly with Bigelow's map.
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