Item is in good relic condition with light surface rust and pitting. Has painted lettering that reads, “GETTYSBURG 1953 POWERS HILL”.

Powers Hill is located in Gettysburg National Military Park in the area of the Baltimore Pike, Granite Schoolhouse Lane, and Blacksmith Shop Road. Union artillery on Powers Hill shelled Confederates, and mistakenly some Union Soldiers on Culp’s Hill early in the morning of July 3, 1863. Right Wing Commander and Twelfth Corps Commander, Major-General Henry W. Slocum had his headquarters here. During the bombardment preceding Pickett’s Charge on the afternoon of July 3rd, Army of the Potomac commander, Major-General George Gordon Meade temporarily moved his headquarters to Powers Hill. [sl]

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