Confederate attack on Union left repulsed at the point of a bayonet
...Now there are 10,000 Union soldiers in the battle line, from the Pennsylvania
Memorial to just short of this hill. Those solders are under the command of a
political general from the state of New York by the name of Daniel Sickles. As
soon as Sickles is placed on the Union left flank in that position, he doesn't
like it. The reason he doesn't like it is that he's been given the only low
ground on the entire Union battle line to defend, and it's no fun to defend low
ground in any war. On his own and without orders, he breaks away from the rest of
the Union battle line and advances his men forward, looking for better positions.
Now he's putting the entire Union battle line at great risk...
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