The Angle

The Angle
Bloody Angle
Historic site
Plaque inscribed "General Armistead and a few Confederate soldiers charged across this wall, reached the Union cannon behind it and were soon overwhelmed"
Coordinates: 39°48′48″N 77°14′11″W / 39.81343°N 77.23640°W / 39.81343; -77.23640
Locationplaque near north end of north-south wall
& west end of 80 ft west-east wall

The Angle (Bloody Angle colloq.) is a Gettysburg Battlefield area which includes the 1863 Copse of Trees used as the target landmark for Pickett's Charge, the 1892 monument that marks the high-water mark of the Confederacy, a rock wall, and several other Battle of Gettysburg monuments.

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