Where is it Wednesday, Gettysburg?

[MRB1863]

Identify this site...

 

[Kurt G]

12th and 44th New York monument on LRT.

 

[reading48]

Late again....I agree...

 

[ronzzo]

What Kurt G said!

 

[111thNYSV]

Agreed.

 

[Gettysburg Guide #154]

And just behind the boulders in the foreground one can find one of the earliest memorials on the entire Battlefield. Carved into the top of the rock are the words:

Col. STRONG VINCENT FELL HERE
CMD'G 3D BRIG. 1ST DIV. 5 CORP
JULY 2ND 1863

Visitors to Little Round Top recorded the presence of the carving as early as the fall of 1864. The monument for the 12th and 44th NY appeared about 3 decades later.

Vincent's initiative in bringing his brigade into position to defend the south slope of the hill on the afternoon of July, only shortly before Hood's Confederates reached that point, was recognized with a promotion to Brigadier General. Sadly, he expired of his wounds before he learned go the promotion.

 

[Tom Elmore]

"The first man I saw fall was [Private] Sanford Webb of Co. G [140th New York]. He was touching my left elbow, and fell near the summit of Little Round Top, within four feet of and in front of the rock which has a tablet on in memory of Gen. Vincent, probably 40 feet north of the summit." (Samuel R. Hazen, Company G, 140th New York, The National Tribune, August 25, 1892, p. 4.)

 

[Kip124thNY]

I concur.

 

[Dave DuBrucq]

Kurt G. is correct..

 

[1st New Jersey Brigade]

Not to change the subject , which by the way everyone is right about, but why is there snow on every ones avatar ? Can someone please open the shades on this thread to melt the snow ?

 

[Cavalier]

Well I was going to guess the 140 N.Y. Wrong again! Dont stand next to me in a lightening storm.

John

 

[Dave DuBrucq]

Not to change the subject , which by the way everyone is right about, but why is there snow on every ones avatar ? Can someone please open the shades on this thread to melt the snow ?

The snow makes for a white Christmas, wherever you may be.

 

[1st New Jersey Brigade]

The snow makes for a white Christmas, wherever you may be.

In North West New Jersey I am. From a storm we had last week we ended up with 10 inches , about 5/6 left on the ground now.

 

[Lubliner]

I am sorry to say I cannot answer to where it is for it is for it is Thursday now.
Merry Christmas Friday!
Lubliner.

 

[EJ Zander]

And I was gonna say Repunzel's Castle tower at the entrance to the old Fantasyland theme park in Gburg.

 

[MRB1863]

Ya'all got that one nailed! Perhaps a bit too identifiable?

 

[Lubliner]

Is it still there?
Lubliner.

 

[MRB1863]

Is it still there?
Lubliner.

Oh yes it still stands.

 

[reading48]

And it wasn't even struck by any shot or shell during the battle.

 

[Lubliner]

It resembles the Wilder Tower in Chickamauga.
Lubliner.