The Copse of Trees - Gettysburg

The Copse of Trees was the focal point of Pickett's Charge on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg. It is located inside The Angle, an area within a stone fence that zigzags south, then west, the south again near the trees. 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. It is commemorated by the High Water Mark monument seen at the base of the trees.