The Angle

[tlyne]

 

[Tom Elmore]

Not many folks may realize that the wall to the right of the tree, which ran perpendicular to the ridge, was occupied by the 71st Pennsylvania for most of the day on July 2, until the threat of attack from the west in the late afternoon compelled the regiment to realign behind Battery A, 4th U.S., facing west. The initial deployment of the Second Corps very early on July 2 suggested a concern that an attack would be launched from the north, from the direction of town.

 

[MRB1863]

So clam and peacefully serene now....but in early July 1863.....not.

 

[unionblue]

My ancestor, Jacob Lee Hambleton, of the 19th Virginia, was captured in front of the Angle during Picket's Charge.

 

[E_just_E]

Not many folks may realize that the wall to the right of the tree, which ran perpendicular to the ridge, was occupied by the 71st Pennsylvania for most of the day on July 2, until the threat of attack from the west in the late afternoon compelled the regiment to realign behind Battery A, 4th U.S., facing west. The initial deployment of the Second Corps very early on July 2 suggested a concern that an attack would be launched from the north, from the direction of town.

And they were pretty much correct, because that was the way that Early's evening attack happened. They just didn't get that far