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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
BLOODY ANGLE, OR HIGH WATER MARK, 
GETTYSBURG. 
The illustration presented with this represents a 
portion of the battlefield of Gettysburg which will 
be famous in history always. It is what is known 
as Bloody Angle, or High Water Mark, being the 
crest of Pickett’s charge in that memorable battle, 
the grove of trees well marking the place. It is 
conceded that the repulse of the enemy by the Union 
troops at that point on that day virtually closed the 
battle of Gettysburg, and that from that day the 
fortunes of the confederacy waned, hence the inter- 
est which centres about the spot. 
The illustration shows the grove of trees, Han- 
cock avenue, the various monuments erected by the 
commands which fought along the line, while far 
away in the distance is Big Round Top, an observa- 
On the right, the triangular looking one is that 
of the 72nd. Pa., which, as the stone tells us, lost 
in the battle 10 officers and 102 men. 
Right in front of the grove of trees will be no- 
ticed a tablet, flanked on each side by a cannon. 
One page of the tablet is headed “High Water 
Mark” the other, “Repulse of Longstreet's Assault” 
and then follow details of the event. The guns and 
square monument nearer to the road belong to 
Cowan’s New York Battery, the tall monument, to 
the 1st. Minnesota regiment, and the very tall 
one to the right and beyond the tree, has been 
erected by the state of Vermont. The inscription 
on it reads, “Veimont in Honor of Her Sons who 
Fell on this Hill.” The little marble markers seen 
here and there, show the right and left of the battle 
line of the various commands. 
BLOODY ANGLE, GETTYSBURG, PA. 
tory crowning it, with Little Round Top, a little 
nearer and to the left of it, where the outlines of a 
few monuments can be seen. The monuments as 
shown in the illustration are similar to what are to 
be seen the whole length of the 20 miles which com- 
prised the battle front. From Big Round Top, the 
left of the Union line to Powers Hill, its extreme 
right, the distance is 20 miles, and monuments have 
been erected the whole distance to indicate the po- 
sition each battery or regiment occupied. 
Sometimes the lines are in tolerably straight 
rows, but at the Bloody angle where the contest 
was unusually severe, there is quite a cluster of 
monuments, encircling the grove of trees, as par- 
tially revealed in the picture. The monument first 
on the left is that of the 1st. Pa. Cavalry, the guns 
are those of Brown’s Battery, R. I. Light Artdlery. 
The tall monument next to it, surmounted by an 
Indian Wigwam, is that of the 42nd. New York In- 
fantry. (Tammany.) 
The tall spreading tree which is seen between 
the Minnesota and the Vermont monuments, is a 
butternut, of which there are a great many about 
Gettysburg. This one tree is of good size, and stood 
there during the battle, and, undoubtedly, is full 
of bullets, as are all the large trees that stood in ex- 
posed places. It is rather singular that of the thirty 
trees or thereabouts that compose the group shown 
at the Bloody Angle, all but about two are the Rock 
Chestnut Oak, Quercus Prinus Montana. Usually 
this species is only to be found on rocky eminences, 
such as Big Round Top, and where these are it is 
neither elevated nor rocky. 
The battlefield can now be reached readily at 
all points, owing to the nicely graded macadam 
roads which have been constructed, rendering either 
driving or walking a pleasure. In excavating for 
the roads bullets are continually met with in places 
where the battle raged, and, occasionally a skele- 
ton is unearthed, the remains of some “unknown 
