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TROSTLE’S BARN , THE SCENE OF THE FIGHTING BY BIGELOW’S NINTH MASSACHUSETTS BATTERY.
FROM A WAll-TIME PHOTOGRAPH.
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terror, and they were good enough to let me pass through scot-free, hut“ badly demoralized.” However, my horse was safe, I mounted, and in thebusy excitement that followed almost forgot my scare.
It was not until about 4 p. m. that Longstreet got his two divisions into posi-tion in two lines, McLaws ’s on the right of Anderson’s division of Hill’s corps,and opposite the Peach Orchard; Hood’s on the extreme Confederate right andcrossing the Emmitsburg road. Hood had been ordered, keeping his left onthat road, to break in the end of our line, supposed to be at the orchard; butperceiving that our left was “ refused ” (bent back toward Devil’s Den), andnoticing the importance of Eound Top, he suggested to Longstreet that the
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TROSTLE’S HOUSE, SCENE OF THE FIGHTING OF BIGELOW’S BATTERY. FROM A WAR-TIME I’HOTOGRAPH.