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@Tom Elmore , I can't thank you enough for your excellent posts. This is good stuff. Tom, your electronic library has to be enourmous for you to make your posts so quickly and so concisely.
So, let me try to wrap this up. Regimental history seems to place Smith's 4 forward guns further east but still close to where they stand today. East would push the 4 guns more or less directly behind where the guns sit today. Now let's go back and interject Hunt's conversation with Smith 25 years after the battle. Hunt talks about painting a rock and placing their monument a few feet north. Below is a google satellite view of Smith's guns current position. Now based on that conversation, I have assumed that the rock that Hunt was referring to Hunt Rock A below. Another option is the oblong rock marked Hunt rock 2.
Does Hunt's conversation with Smith add any credible clues on the guns location or did the 25 years of elapsed time cloud their memory? As you venture north of that location, the largest rocks are just in front of the 99th Pa monument. But there are few others. Lastly, are the 2 locations I id'd below, far enough away from the current position to motivate Hunt to interject the incompetency comment?
I don't recall reading that Smith's monument was ever moved. I remember it being vandalized, but not moved. Thanks all.
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