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What is today acknowledged as the grounds upon which the Battle of Gettysburg took place, covers an area of about 24 square miles. For that reason the terrain was extremely diverse.
The first day of battle mostly took place north and west of the town of Gettysburg as the Federal cavalry of Brigadier General John Buford was pushed back over several ridges, finally making a stand with the arrival of Major General John Reynolds' First Corps on McPherson's Ridge. The Federal Eleventh Corps made a stand north of town until around sunset when it fell back, through Gettysburg, and was rallied on Cemetery Hill--due south of Gettysburg between Gettysburg Pike and Tanneytown Road. The First Corps then fell back, avoiding the town, to Cemetery Hill.
So the terrain went from rolling hills to an urban setting concluding at a pinnacle Cemetery Hill is quite similar to Marye's Heights at the Battle of Fredericksburg except there the forces of General Robert E. Lee were at the top and the Union forces were at the foot--here it was reversed.
That night, Major General George G. Meade arrived with additional forces which he sent out to positions on Culp's Hill to the right of Cemetery Hill, Cemetery Ridge to the left and down to Little Round Top. His entire line was either on a hill or on a ridge overlooking a broad valley of mostly treeless farmland. The Confederate forces formed in the tree line along Seminary Ridge, just opposite Cemetery Ridge to the west and separated by a valley with multiple swales running north and south.
On the second day of the battle significant fighting took place on Culp's and Cemetery Hills and at Little Round Top as well as at the Peach Orchard and Wheatfield-all farmland.
The third day saw 7-hours of battle at Culp's Hill, a cavalry battle east of Gettysburg along the Hanover Road and the improperly named "Picket's Charge. The charge across the mile of valley from Seminary Ridge to Cemetery Ridge was originally named Longstreet's Advance until General Longstreet disowned it. Since Generals Pickett, Petigrew and Trimble were the three division commanders involved and of the latter two one had been killed days later and the other was a prisoner, Picket took ownership.
So the answer is hilly farmland, urban, flat with inclines, cuts and many rocks. Mostly devoid of trees.
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∙ 11y agoFor the South, it was a hindrance.
The Union military took the initiative and occupied the main hills (Big and Little Round Top) early in the battle, and the south had to accept theconsequences. The failed to take either hills, thus failing to overcome the Union flank (Little round top, July 2nd, 20th Maine Regiment commanded by Then Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Expelled Confederate Gen. Longstreet's attempts to break the Union Left Flank.) If you want to get technical, the open terrain the South had to cross (Pickett's Charge) was a slaughterhouse for confederate soldiers, where Union Artillery (and sometimes rifle fire) coulddecimate them from any position.
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∙ 11y agothe terrain was very hairy and soilders said it tickled their feet every time they walk on it and later developed ticklelittous
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∙ 10y agoBack in nam. i was worried about the Vietnamese not no stupid bulge battle
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∙ 15y agoRolling farmland, with steep, rocky hills.
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∙ 11y agopotatoes on a bun!
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