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The Battle of Gettysburg

July 1-3, 1863

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The epic struggle turned largely on two key moments, both bayonet charges.

On the 2nd day of the battle, greatly outnumbered and out of ammunition, Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, commanding the 20th Maine, ordered his men to Charge bayonets in defense of the key position at Little Round Top. This impossible charge made by the then fewer than 200 remaining men of the regiment against a vastly superior Confederate force secured the Union left flank from a determined Confederate attack that could have swept the Union Army from the field.

On the 3rd day of the battle the great and final assault was made as Robert E Lee ordered 13,000 of his Army of Northern Virginia to charge Union positions on Cemetery Ridge. The Union repulse of that charge, known as Pickett's Charge for the general who led it, proved to be the climactic moment ending the battle of Gettysburg.

This exquisite piece is framed in a cherry stained solid wood shadowbox frame (22 by 18 inches and 2 and 1/8 inches deep) made in the USA. It features the digitally enhanced image of the 1863 Endicott lithograph of the battlefield, which included on the original, the signatures of General Meade and 16 of his commanders. This has been printed on the finest museum quality paper. The bottom of the piece includes Minié balls recovered from the Gettysburg on either side of canister/grape shot. These small cannon balls were fired in mass from artillery, turning the cannon into a gigantic shotgun. Featured most prominently is a relic bayonet of the period and type that was used in the Gettysburg campaign and to the best of our ability is believed to have been recovered from the area of the campaign (northern Virginia to the Cashtown area).

American Military Heritage Society, Inc.