To: mainepatsfan; All
R.E. Lee monument at the location where he observed Pickett's Charge on the 3rd day
The 26th North Carolina monument near the Lee monument. In my opinion, the most striking and beautiful monument on the battlefield.
35 posted on
07/01/2007 6:36:03 AM PDT by
Jackknife
( "It's not a real party 'til somebody breaks something.")
To: Jackknife
I took this during my last trip a few years ago of the marker honoring the furthest advance of the 26th North Carolina.
To: Jackknife
This is what they marched into. Every line represents the trajectory of a Union Artillery shell. Someone told me that the military term for this is an "interconnecting field of fire". No wonder they had 60% casualties.
109 posted on
07/01/2007 9:36:45 AM PDT by
StarfireIV
("We canot save ourselves if the picture of ourselves is in a troth." Bill Cosby)
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