GETTYSBURG, Pa.—Independence Day 1863 ... three p.m. and the attack on the Union center commenced. The famed Copse of Trees seemed so close, less than a mile away. The gently undulating ...

The 69th was the only regiment not to withdraw from defending the stone wall in front of the copse of trees during Pickett's Charge. Over the two days they fought at Gettysburg, they lost 143 men ...

where the "Gettysburg Address" was delivered, and where Union artillery repelled all Rebel approaches. Barely 40 feet high, the ridge includes the Angle’s stone wall and the copse of trees that ...

Visiting Gettysburg National Military Park ... 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 ...

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 ...

Before they arrived at Gettysburg, cadets read and studied ... to walk into the maelstrom that awaited them. At the "Copse of Trees," at the "Angle" where the "High Water Mark of the Confederacy ...

They had invited me to join them 10 years earlier, for the 140 th Gettysburg ... When the flag bearers reached the Copse of Trees — a small grove known ever since as the High Watermark of ...

The three days of the Battle of Gettysburg. One hundred and fifty ... Little Round Top, the Copse of Trees, the Bloody Angle, Cemetery Hill. The exploits of the 20th Maine Regiment, which defended ...

Several years ago, Gettysburg National Military Park interpretive ranger ... They had read about Little Round Top, Pickett’s Charge, and the copse of trees. They knew that a large and important battle ...

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 ...