GDG- The letter

Batrinque at aol.com Batrinque at aol.com
Fri Jan 5 21:20:07 CST 2007


In a message dated 1/5/07 2:19:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
chaplain.chuck at gmail.com writes:

> Moreover, the Copse at the time was on a more pronounced ledge at the time.
> The area around it has been leveled, and manicured, and the road has made
> the slope even more gentle. A veteran returning years later commented, *"No
> one seeing it now would suppose it had then a steep little southeastern
> hillside more than breast high."*
> 

One contemporary Union account (and sketch, I think) about the Third Day 
referred to this area as a "bluff", I think.  Now, if I could just remember where 
that account is reproduced ...

Bruce Trinque
Amston, CT


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