The Angle - Gettysburg

The Angle is an area located witin a stone fence that zigzags south, then west, the south again near the Copse of Trees at Gettysburg. It was the focal point of Pickett's Charge on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg. Union troops under Brigadier General John Gibbon defended the stone wall on July 3rd. Confederate troops led by Brigadier General Lewis Armistead temporarily broke through their lines and crossed the wall just west of the Copse of Trees in what has come to be regarded as the high point of Confederate military acheivement in the war.