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East Cavalry Battlefield

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East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
East Cavalry Battlefield
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+1 877-874-2478

Address:
221 Cavalry Field Rd, Gettysburg, PA 17325-8226

On the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg during the disastrous infantry assault nicknamed Pickett's Charge, there were two cavalry battles: one approximately three miles to the east, in the area known today as East Cavalry Field, the other southwest of the [Big] Round Top mountain . The East Cavalry Field fighting was an attempt by Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's Confederate cavalry to get into the Federal rear and exploit any success that Pickett's Charge may have generated. Union cavalry under Brig. Gens. David McM. Gregg and George Armstrong Custer repulsed the Confederate advances. In South Cavalry Field, after Pickett's Charge had been defeated, reckless cavalry charges against the right flank of the Confederate Army, ordered by Brig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick, were easily repulsed, resulting in the death of Brig. Gen. Elon J. Farnsworth.
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