When David Myers saw what was on the new quarter, he just had to add his two cents' worth. The Carlisle man is convinced the U.S. Mint could have made a better choice for a monument to grace the ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa.—Independence Day 1863. ... The famed Copse of Trees seemed so close, less than a mile away. The gently undulating countryside beckoned.

GETTYSBURG, PA. At the windswept crucible of the Gettysburg battlefield, visitors stand under the famous Copse of Trees and think of the day a nation - its fate resting on those slender branches ...

History comes alive in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. ... Barely 40 feet high, the ridge includes the Angle’s stone wall and the copse of trees that figure in Pickett’s Charge.

In Gettysburg, the ghastly drama of ... We pivoted slightly to the left, pointing ourselves directly at the famous copse of trees that marked the center of the Union lines on the climactic third ...

Why Gettysburg’s called a ‘Maine battlefield ... Little Round Top, the Copse of Trees, the Bloody Angle, Cemetery Hill. The exploits of the 20th Maine Regiment, ...

When the flag bearers reached the Copse of Trees — a small grove known ever since as the High Watermark of the Confederacy, as far into Northern territory as Lee’s army would ever go — the ...

For the 620,000 Civil War dead, a living memorial of trees from Gettysburg to Monticello. Associated Press. Published January 11, 2015 10:31am EST | Updated May 21, 2015 12:23pm EDT.

At the "Copse of Trees," at the "Angle" where the "High Water Mark of the Confederacy" lapped upon the Union Center, the cadets learned about Union artillery Lt. Alonzo Cushing, USMA Class of June ...

They had read about Little Round Top, Pickett’s Charge, and the copse of trees. They knew that a large and important battle had taken place here in the surrounding fields and the nearby town. Still ...

The little copse of trees on a slight ridge among the fields southeast of Utica looks like the copse of trees on a similar ridge at Gettysburg, Pa. It's fitting that David Taylor, who lost his ...