The Story of Gettysburg

When we left off last time our tour guide had begun telling the story of Gettysburg. For you I will tell everything but the story of Gettysburg, I will save that for the end so don't worry. So he told the first day of Gettysburg. Than we biked across the southern line. We saw a huge Virginia monument that had Lee at the top.



Then we saw the peach orchard and the devil's den (a rocky terrain that is named after a 9 ft snake that was impossible to catch hereby thought to be possessed by the devil). And we saw Little round top, a hill smaller than big round top and the center of the Union line with a Meade (Union Commander) statue in sight of the Lee statue.

Gettysburg, day 1:
The first soldiers into Gettysburg was General Hill's Corps. They had orders that they shouldn't fight the enemy. Then General Buford's cavalry came and engaged the enemy. Hill fell back so they could have Lee's entire army before they began fighting. Buford knew the values of terrain, he saw that this must be where the Battle should be. He sent desperate letters to General Reynolds, the head of the First Corps, wanting infantry to back them up. Buford got nothing back as Reynolds thought that Lee was much farther north. Buford's men, therefore, had to spend two hours until Reynolds came loping up to Buford's command post and said "What's wrong?" Buford said that they were engaging the enemy. Reynolds galloped off to his troops, two miles away. The solders charged up and came just in time to make sure that Buford's cavalry did not retreat. Within a short amount of time Reynolds was shot.

Tomorrow, the real story of Little Round Top!

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