The Angle at Gettysburg — Attraction in Cumberland Township

To attempt to experience the third day of battle and in order to understand what the confederate soldiers experienced during what is known today as "Picket's Charge" start from the confederate line with a stop watch of some sort, start walking, taking time to close up the line because if it really were July 3, 1863 a bunch of your friends would be blown to bits right beside or in front of you and you would be ordered to dress the line. Right before or right after you have to get over the fences at the Emmittsburg Road, start moving double time. When you make it to the The Angle check your stop watch and consider that were it 1863 you might not have made it at all. Prior to the battle of Gettysburg Union troops suffered heavy casualties during a similar charge at Fredericksburg. That is why as the Confederates neared The Angle they chanted "Fredericksburg,...

What more can one say then to stand where history was decided... Knowing the particulars of the battle, and being able to stand on the very spot where Lew Armistead waved his sword and and was shot down by Union infantry... The farthest point of the rebel attack. It's a brutal history, a brutal day, July 3rd 1863. We are very lucky that this space has...

It's one thing to read about Pickett's Charge. But to stand at the epicenter of the attack, looking over the fields imagining what the Confederates had to endure just to reach the Angle, imagining the Union soldiers standing with thousands of enemy troops bearing down, gives you appreciation for what the soldiers (on both sides) in the war...