boulders opened up fire on them. They were deployed there by General Sykes from the V Corps. US soldiers were ordered to kepp Little Round Top. They placed artillery pieces on Little Round Top and began firing upon approaching Confederates.By the end of the second day the US V Corps controlled Little Round Top and Big Round Top. They had places a pickett line fron the crest of Little Round Top to the crest of Big Round Top.During the fighting on the third day, the main event was Picket's Charge. General Pickett received a letter telling him to advance on the Union forces at the angle. The angle was a stone wall that formed a right angle. It was a weak point in the Union lines. When General Pickett went to ask General Longstreet if that was an acceptable order, all Longstreet did was nod his head because he knew what Pickett was going to do was suicide for his men. Picketts men were ordered to move silently through the woods before the angle. The US troops saw the Cs troops coming but waited fro the last possible second to fire. When Pickett came out of the woods his men were being knocked down by Union guns. Picketts men moved across the Emmittsburg Rd. to the angle. Only a small part of his charge was effective. The Union line was not broken but if it had been then Meade would have most likely been killed because his headquarters were 1/8 of a mile past the Union line. Picketts men began to retreat after they realized a hole could not be made in the Union line. The battle ended July 3rd. Pickett lost 7,00 men in the charge.The aftermath of Gettysburg was astonishing. 150,000 men went into the battle and 50,000 of them died. There were 5,000 dead horses. There were so many dead horses the people of Gettysburg had to pile the bodies and burn the horses. The US lost 23,049 men. There was only one civilian casualty. It was a woman who was kneading dough in her kitchen when a bullet pierced through two wooden doors and killed her instantly...
