Gettysburg Greg
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Jun 6, 2010
- Location
- Decatur, Illinois
Many of you are familiar with the A L Cobel carving on a rock where he was positioned on the lower slope of Culp's Hill on July 2 & 3, 1863. Looking out across the Spangler meadow, Cobel and his fellow North Carolinians had a perfectly open field of fire on the 27th Indiana as they made their ill-advised charge across the open ground on the morning of the 3rd. I took the photo below from Cobel's position to show the view he and his comrades had of the meadow. The Hoosiers began their charge from the right side of the frame only making it as far as the advance marker (see arrow) before being halted by the rifle fire from Cobel's position as well as "Extra" Billy Smith's men who were hidden behind a stone wall out of frame to the left. The Hoosiers lost one third of their men in this attack that lasted only minutes.
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