Battle of Gettysburg

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The Battle of Gettysburg is without question the most well known battle of the Civil War.Evidence of this is the Civil War reenactments, which take place the same days of the battle year after year.This paper will discuss the movements during the latter half of the Battle of Gettysburg such as the Wheatfield, The Peach Orchard, and Pickett's Charge.
The Wheatfield lays halfway between Little Round Top and the Peach Orchard, it's an area of approximately 25 acres, which is bordered on the north and south by woodlands, and to the west there is a wooded rocky outcrop known as Stony Hill.The Wheatfield and Stony Hill formed the center of the battle line of Union General David Birney's division of Sickle's 3rd Corp.There were 3 brigades involved on the Union side in this battle.Under the command of General Hobart Ward was the left hand brigade holding Houck's Ridge and the Valley of Death, in the center under command of Colonel Regis de Trobriand was the center brigade holding the Wheatfield and Stony Hill.Lastly on the right side there was General Charles Graham at the edge of the Peach Orchard.
As the Confederate's under General Hood's division attacked Devil's Den and Little Round Top another brigade from the 3rd Arkansas came to reinforce the Confederate's, this led to a lengthy firefight in which de Trobiand's forces sent the Arkansas contingent back out of the Wheatfield.After sending in Hood's division Longstreet sent two brigades toward the Peach Orchard but they were held back on the command of General Lee.Hood's brigades were separated into two groups because of the terrain and circumstances of the battle; South Carolina regiments were in the same predicament.After the South Carolinians crossed Emmitsburg Road they came upon the backside of Stony Hill, half the forces marched toward Stony Hill while the other half marched at the Union batteries, which…