That's a huge difference! Thanks for the info RPK!!! Excellent to know!At the time of the battle, the valley between the Round Tops was about 20 feet deeper than it exists now. Rocks were blasted and the ground graded for the trolley line and, later on, the roads.
Ryan
That's a huge difference! Thanks for the info RPK!!! Excellent to know!
Correct. The topography was forever changed with the construction of....you guessed it.....Chamberlain Ave. Colonel William Oates 15th Alabama was noted as being dismayed at how the hill and surrounding landscape was altered. Unfortunately, by altering the landscape several disputes arose and figured prominently in the 15th Alabama being denied a monument on Little Round Top.At the time of the battle, the valley between the Round Tops was about 20 feet deeper than it exists now. Rocks were blasted and the ground graded for the trolley line and, later on, the roads.
Ryan
I don't think the terrain has anything to do with the 15th Alabama not getting a stone there. The battlefield commission has rules about placing monuments and I think that's the main factor. If anyone has a true argument about monument placement it's Confederates who faught and held the Peach Orchard.Correct. The topography was forever changed with the construction of....you guessed it.....Chamberlain Ave. Colonel William Oates 15th Alabama was noted as being dismayed at how the hill and surrounding landscape was altered. Unfortunately, by altering the landscape several disputes arose and figured prominently in the 15th Alabama being denied a monument on Little Round Top.
I don't think the terrain has anything to do with the 15th Alabama not getting a stone there. The battlefield commission has rules about placing monuments and I think that's the main factor. If anyone has a true argument about monument placement it's Confederates who faught and held the Peach Orchard.
At the time of the battle, the valley between the Round Tops was about 20 feet deeper than it exists now. Rocks were blasted and the ground graded for the trolley line and, later on, the roads.
Ryan
Thanks to the grading of the avenues, the trolley line, and even the railroad line crossing the battlefield—and don’t forget Camp Colt, the German POW camp, and non-battle structures like homes, Stuckey’s, and two airfields—there aren’t many places on the battlefield that are like they were at the time of the battle, unfortunately. The 20th Maine monument area is just one example.