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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: November 11, 2008
Caption: Oates' 15th Alabama and the Rock Ledge
Additional Description: Looking east from a foot path near the 20th Maine Monument (east of Sykes Avenue). As the 15th Alabama moved to the southeast side of Little Round Top, it encountered the 20th Maine, which was at that time the left flank of the Federal army. In his after action report Oates stated, "I halted my regiment as its left reached a very large rock, and ordered a left-wheel of the regiment...taking advantage of a ledge of rocks, running off in a line perpendicular to the one I had just abandoned...." While the exact spot of the large rock is indeterminate, the boulders here are part of the ledge Oates referred to. The 15th was then facing up hill (toward the camera) at the refused left flank of the Maine regiment.
Submitted: January 2, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p48734
File Size: 2.121 Megabytes

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