High Tide Monument

[tlyne]

I always feel humbled, moved, I'm not sure what the correct description should be, but it moves my emotions.

 

[truthckr]

Totally agree with you, that place always gets me a little misty eyed.

 

[Rob9641]

It's titled "Longstreet's Assault," because until Pickett's widow wrote her book, that's what Pickett's Charge was called. It is very moving - I like the book shape of it, reminds me of the permanence of this event in the book of our country's life. Kind of mirrors the scroll shape of the marker where Armistead fell (for the life of me, I can't remember which is older, but it may be the Armistead marker, which was the first marker dedicated to a Confederate officer - anyway, I often wonder if the younger monument was influenced by the older).

 

[MRB1863]

It is quite the moving place!

 

[tlyne]

The Armistead Marker, dedicated July 12, 1887. The High Water Mark Monument was dedicated in 1892.