Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (139 page)

Francis Channing Barlow (1834–1896), the gentleman ranker who commanded the first division of the 11th Corps. Severely wounded and left behind by the retreat of his corps, he was carried to the Josiah Benner farmhouse, where he recovered sufficiently to return to command in the Army of the Potomac the following year.
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Lee’s headquarters at Mrs. Mary Thompson’s house on the north side of the Cashtown Pike.
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The town center of Gettysburg, looking southward from the diamond, down Baltimore Street.

(Levi Mumper) Courtesy of William A. Frassanito, Gettysburg Then and Now: Touring the Battlefield with Old Photos, 1865–1889 (
1996
)

Professor Michael Jacobs (1808–1871) of Pennsylvania College. A mathematician, Jacobs made meticulous weather observations and later wrote the first history of the battle,
Notes on the Rebel Invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania (1863).
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Major General Lafayette McLaws (1821–1897). A Georgian, McLaws commanded one of the three divisions employed by James Longstreet in his overwhelming attack on the Union left flank on July 2nd. Named for the Revolutionary War hero, he nevertheless disliked the tendency of Southerners to collapse it into two syllables:
Lafet
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. Although a mediocre student at West Point, he “has always been distinguished for his talents and sound judgment.”

On the spine of Little Round Top, looking southward toward Big Round Top, from approximately the position occupied by the right flank of Strong Vincent’s brigade. “The ground occupied by the brigade in line of battle was … composed mostly of high rocks and cliffs in the center and becoming more wooded and less rugged as you approached to the left. The right was thrown forward somewhat to the front of the ledge of rocks, and was much more exposed than other parts of the line.”
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Looking northwest from the spine of Little Round Top, toward Houck’s Ridge and, beyond it, John Rose’s wheat field.
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Colonel Strong Vincent (1837–1863). “If Vincent had not taken upon himself the responsibility of taking his brigade” to Little Round Top on the afternoon of July 2nd, “the arrival of his brigade would have found the enemy in possession of the ground, from which in all probability it could not have been dislodged.”
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Joseph Sherfy’s peach orchard, at the intersection of the Wheat Field Lane (left) and the Emmitsburg Road; to the east, Little Round Top and Big Round Top are clearly visible in the distance.

(Levi Mumper) Courtesy of William A. Frassanito, Gettysburg Then and Now: Touring the Battlefield with Old Photos, 1865–1889 (
1996
)

The Joseph Sherfy house, looking northward. William Barksdale’s Mississippi brigade stormed through this yard on July 2nd.
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The Emmitsburg Road, looking north toward Gettysburg and Cemetery Hill; the Rogers house and the Codori barn can be seen on the left and the right of the road.

(Levi Mumper) Courtesy of William A. Frassanito, Gettysburg Then and Now: Touring the Battlefield with Old Photos, 1865–1889 (
1996
)