"The Devil's Den" with a dead Confederate sharpshooter 500 yards from Little Round Top - from, The Photographic History of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65 (1911) (14576225819)

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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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IN THE DEVILS DEN Upon this wide, steep hill, about five hundred yards due west of Little Round Top and one hundred feetlower, was a chasm named by the country folk the Devils Den. When the position fell into the handsof the Confederates at the end of the second days fighting, it became the stronghol<l of tluir sharpshooters,and well did it fulfill its name. It was a most dangerous post to occupy, since the Federal batteries onthe Round Top were constantly shelling it in an effort to dislodge the hardj riflemen, many of whom metthe fate of the one in the picture. Their deadly work continued, however, and many a gallant officer ofthe Federals was picked of! during the fighting on the afternoon of the second day. General \incent wasone of tlie first victims; General Weed fell likewise; and as Lieutenant Hazlett bent over liim to catch hislast words, a l)iillet through the head prostrated that officer lifeless on the body of his chief.

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