Looking southwest from Wainwright Avenue up East Cemetery Hill. The The attack by the Confederate brigades of Hoke and Hays in the evening of July 2 overran the Union line at this point and carried to the artilery positions at the top of the hill before being thrown back by a Union counterattack. At the top of the hill on the right is the equestrian statue of Union Major General Oliver O. Howard. The equestrian statue of Union Major Genral Winfield S. Hancock is to the left of the 68th New York monument. To the left of Hancock and right in front of a pine tree is the monument to the First Pennsylvania Artillery, Battery B, with one of its 3" Ordnance rifles to its left in a lunette, or crecent-shaped earthwork. To its left the cross that tops the Evergreen Cemetery Gatehouse and the very tip of its roof just peeks over the hill, while in front of the clump of trees at the left is the monument to the 4th Ohio Infantry Regiment.
|
