Ill fated Union Cavalry charge against Confederate right flank
...As early as one o'clock in the afternoon, 1,900 men with four cannons are
ordered up this valley on our right to get as close to the Confederate-occupied
portions of Big Round Top as possible. They are under the command of a brigadier
general by the name of Elon Farnsworth, who is under the orders of Brigadier
General Judson Kilpatrick. These men push the Confederate skirmishers back
through the valley on our right to a hill called Bushman Hill...
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