Major General Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886) commanded the Union line on Cemetery Ridge on July 2, 1863. This view was taken circa 1863 and is courtesy of the Library of Congress. Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Dr. Rich Goedkoop is the ho[...]
Lieutenant Colonel William L. Curry commanded the 106th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg. On the evening of July 2, 1863, he led his regiment towards the Codori farm buildings as they aided in repulsing an attack by Wright&[...]
Colonel Francis Voltaire Randall Sr. (1824-1885) commanded the 13th Vermont Infantry Regiment during the Gettysburg Campaign. He was a pre-war lawyer, and postmaster, and served as a Captain in the 2nd Vermont Infantry. In 1864 he commanded the 17th[...]
Major General Winfield Scott Hancock on horseback in the center of the painting, directs Colonel William Colvill of the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment to charge down the west slope of Cemetery Ridge towards Confederates approaching a weak point in [...]
Henry H. Lockwood (August 17, 1814-December 7, 1899) was born in Kent County, Delaware, and graduated from West Point in 1836. He saw some service in the Seminole Wars, and in 1841 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the United States Naval[...]
Eliakim Sherrill (1813-1863) was the Colonel of the 126th New York Infantry Regiment at Gettysburg. He took over the command of Willard’s Brigade after Willard was killed on July 2nd. Sherrill was mortally wounded during Pickett’s Charge[...]
When Colonel George Willard of the 125th New York Infantry commanded a brigade at Gettysburg, Lieutenant Colonel Levin Crandell (1826-1907) commanded the 125th New York Infantry Regiment. Crandell was promoted to the rank of Colonel after Willard[...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Richard Goedkoop is the host for our series on Union Counterattacks on Cemetery Ridge. He is standing in Sherfy’s Peach Orchard. The monument is to Thompson’s Independent Battery C, Pennsylvania Ligh[...]