These are Codori's, so frequently spoken of in the history of the battle. These buildings mark about the center of Pickett's assaulting column. In and behind the grove, about a half mile west, upon Seminary Ridge, this column was formed.

Over the ground all about you the Confederate hosts passed under a terrific artillery and musketry fire. The guns from Round Top and East Cemetery Hill ploughed through and through them diagonally from right to left, and from left to right, covering the ground with their slain.

Arriving at Round Top Park, you ascend by a gradual slope to its summit. The ground over which you pass is historic. Over it the Union forces moved to charge the enemy. Round Top was the key to the field, and to seize and hold it the Confederates made the most determined and desperate efforts, but were met and driven back by the brave defenders of the Union. This hill was baptized with blood. That monument which stands out so conspicuously marks the spot where the brave General Strong Vincent fell. But a few feet to its rear General Weed fell, and Lieutenant Hazlett, in the act of catching him in his arms, also fell pierced by the bullet of a sharp-shooter from the Devil's Den. Near by, too, fell the lamented Colonel O'Rourke while bravely leading his regiment against the foe. Then to your left, where the ground begins to slope toward the depression between Little and Big Round Top, the heroic Chamberlain threw his hardy sons of Maine into the form of the letter U to meet the foe, who pressed upon him from every side. And down through the depression between these two hills the Pennsylvania Reserves

made their desperate charge, driving the enemy before them, and this Hill of Salvation was saved to the Union cause. And when the Federals by main force succeeded in planting their cannon upon its rock-crowned brow, it became a second Gibraltar, and victory was assured to the cause of Freedom. Does it not seem that God planted that rock-covered and rock-crowned hill just at that place, with its bold, precipitous, and almost inaccessible side to the enemy, and its comparatively gentle elevation to the Federals, for the express purpose of saving the American Union?

But let us sit down now, and by the aid of this beautiful illustration, take a more extended view of the field. This view, as its title indicates, gives us a north-eastern outlook. But in order that you may have a correct understanding of the situation you will bear in mind that the Federal line was in the shape of a fish-hook. The heel of that hook rested upon the place where you now are, its curve upon Cemetery Hill,-the high ground which is seen three miles off to the right, and its point upon Culp's and Wolff Hills, which lie further to the right, or about a half to three quarters of a mile south-east of Cemetery Hill. These hills are not seen in this picture. Gettysburg lies behind Cemetery Hill. The Federal line, then, on the second and third days of the battle, extended from Round Top, and in front of it, up across the ground between you and that elevation in the extreme right, and then curving in an easterly and then in a south-easterly direction, ended upon Wolff Hill, -the whole about three and a half miles in length. Seminary Ridge, upon which the Confederate line lay, up as far as where the Chambersburg road crosses

it, is faintly seen in the distance. This view embraces the whole field, from the Federal left to the center, and all the ground within view was fought over.

But we introduce another view from this same hill, looking west and north-west.

This view presents the theatre of the greatest events in human history. Within an area scarcely more than a mile square, and directly in front of you (the corps badge on the monument marks its eastern side, or the side next to you), amidst those fields and woods and rocks and stones, fifty thousand armed men, like two mighty wrestlers, struggled and fought for four hours for the mastery, strewing the ground with their slain. But let me particularize. The ridge, or high ground you see in the distance, and which extends from one end of the picture to the other, is Seminary Ridge, along which the Confederate line lay during the battles of the second and third days. On pages 260 and 298 you have a view of this ridge from where the Chambersburg pike crosses it down beyond the Theological Seminary. On that part of the ridge the Federal left rested during the battle of the first day (facing west), and Hill's Corps was stationed there during the second and third days. This view shows that ridge from where it ends in those pictures down to the Confederate right a little below Big Round Top. The house and barn which are seen just beyond the right of that grove are Codori's. The Emmittsburg road which leaves the town close by the western base of East Cemetery Hill,- or near the curve of the fish hook,-passes by that house. The group of buildings this side of the grove are Trostle's; and the lane, or narrow road, which is seen running westward