The high-water mark of the Confederacy or high tide of the Confederacy refers to an area on Cemetery Ridge near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, marking the furthest point reached by Confederate forces durin
To the left (east) of The Angle stone wall was the furthest advances of the units of Longstreet's assault during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg.
The 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Monument marks their "advance position".
The Armistead Marker marks where General Armistead collapsed with mortal wounds.
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The Angle 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,
High-water mark of the Confederacy
…a high water mark, the term is a reference to arguably the Confederate Army's best chance of victory during the war. The line of advance was east of "The Angle" stone wall. This designation was invented by government historian John B. Bachelder after the war when the monuments of the Gettysburg Battlefield…
Plaque inscribed "General Armistead and a few Confederate soldiers charged across this wall, reached the Union cannon behind it and were soon overwhelmed"
Old veterans clasping hands across the Angle at the 1913 Gettysburg reunion.