GDG- Harvest of Death Mystery

[JIM COOKE]

I heard an interesting theory on a battle walk this summer: a ranger proposed that these honored dead are from a skirmish line of the 41st NY and 33rd MA, sent east of E. Cemetery hill on the afternoon of July 2, and then chased back to the line at the foot of the hill in the evening as Hays and Avery attacked east to west across the fields from the Culp property. The line has been described as a "heavy" skirmish line, with upwards of 1,000 soldiers. The sloping ground could be east of the current East Confederate Avenue, with the shot facing in a southeasterly direction toward the tree line.
It's probably not in the Rose fields, but we may never know the exact spot. That's why this is such an exciting battle to study: tantalizing pieces of information in a fog of battle.
JC