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August 15th’s tour begins later in the day. Join us at 5pm for “Wait a little, we are all going on presently”. Learn about the charge of Barksdale's Mississippians as they smashed the Peach Orchard salient on the evening of July 2, 1863. We will also follow events of that same evening as Union forces retreated towards the Trostle Farm where a certain General last commanded troops in the field. Along the way you’ll see the Sickles wounding marker, a cannonball hole in the Trostle barn, Cora the cannon, a witness tree, plus be among the first to hear from an unpublished letter written by Malbone Watson and find out why Watson's Battery's Monument is not exactly in the right place!
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August 15th’s tour begins later in the day. Join us at 5pm for “Wait a little, we are all going on presently”. Learn about the charge of Barksdale's Mississippians as they smashed the Peach Orchard salient on the evening of July 2, 1863. We will also follow events of that same evening as Union forces retreated towards the Trostle Farm where a certain General last commanded troops in the field. Along the way you’ll see the Sickles wounding marker, a cannonball hole in the Trostle barn, Cora the cannon, a witness tree, plus be among the first to hear from an unpublished letter written by Malbone Watson and find out why Watson's Battery's Monument is not exactly in the right place!
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