Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press. Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery. Reaching the Citizens Cemetery we found a battery of artillery posted there… The soldiers stopped us and would not let us pass. Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. A Boy's Experiences During the Battle of Gettysburg. ^ "General Gettys' Grandson Here" ( Google News Archive).Two Confederate soldiers mortally wounded during the battle were buried in Evergreen Cemetery. The fences are all down, the many graves have been run over, beautiful lots with iron fences and splendid monuments have been destroyed or soiled, and our infantry and artillery occupy those sacred grounds where the dead are sleeping. Historian Frederick Hawthorne wrote of Howard's successful defense: “Lying in reserve in the Evergreen Cemetery, they ( 73rd Pennsylvania Infantry) rushed out through the cemetery gateway to help drive the Confederates away from Rickett’s and Weidrich’s batteries.” Įvergreen experienced three days as battlefield, and its resulting condition inspired a Union officer to lament: "A beautiful cemetery it was, but now is trodden down, laid a waste, desecrated. "Federal soldiers in the Cemetery laid many of the tombstones on the ground" to limit damage, and some of the XI Corps batteries and infantry used the grave monuments "for shelter from the enemy's fire".
Avery commenced the Battle of East Cemetery Hill, charging Howard's artillery batteries from the east. Hays and 3 North Carolina regiments under Colonel Isaac E. Īt dusk on July 2, 5 Louisiana regiments under Brigadier-General Harry T. Major-General Oliver Otis Howard lined the cemetery's high ground with cannons, turning it into an "artillery platform," and made its gatehouse into XI Corps (Union Army) headquarters. Battle of East Cemetery Hill, July 2, 1863Įvergreen Cemetery is eponymous with Cemetery Hill, the landform noted as the keystone of the Union position during the Battle of Gettysburg.
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