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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), part 2.11, The battle of Gettysburg--the high-water mark of the Civil War (search)
arallel to the run flows a somewhat larger stream called Rock Creek. Between Rock Creek and the northern extremity of CemetRock Creek and the northern extremity of Cemetery Ridge is situated Culp's Hill, on whose sides the armies in blue and gray struggled heroically during the three days figded north of the town from Seminary Ridge to the bank of Rock Creek. Here for hours the roar Federal dead at Gettysburg,ho after Reynolds' death directed the extreme right near Rock Creek, leaving nearly half of his men dead or wounded on the fenter on Seminary Ridge, its wings extending from beyond Rock Creek on the north to a point opposite Round Top on the south,oned works of Geary and Ruger, now gone to Round Top and Rock Creek to assist the left wing. Thus closed the second day'sar of artillery from Culp's Hill, around the bend toward Rock Creek. This knoll in the woods had, as we have seen, been takf the contest at Culp's Hill and a cavalry fight east of Rock Creek, the forenoon of July 3d The height of the battle-tid