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6th North Carolina State Troops
Photos from Tour of Gettysburg Battlefield
July 1, 2000

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Photo by Rick Walton

Stop # 4 - East Cemetery Hill as viewed from Steven's Knoll. Hoke's Brigade sweep across this valley and up East Cemetery Hill. The troops were severely enfiladed by fire from the cannons of Steven's Maine battery posted here.

Stop #5- Base of East Cemetery Hill

Photo by BJ Carpenter

Members of the Sixth North Carolina at Tour stop 5, at the base of East Cemetery Hill (Wainwright Avenue). After reading a tribute to North Carolina Soldiers, the men unfurled their colors and marched up the hill.

Photo by BJ Carpenter Members of the Sixth North Carolina re-enact the famous charge upon East Cemetery Hill

Stop #6 - Crest of East Cemetery Hill

Click on Photo to see sign enlarged Photo by BJ Carpenter Reading about the attack at the crest of East Cemetery Hill

Photo by BJ Carpenter
At the final tour stop, the men rest after "charging" the cannons on top of East Cemetery Hill.
Members of the Sixth pose with a cannon that the original Sixth helped capture and silence. Like their ancestors, the re-enactors planted their colors at the crest.

Photo by Rick Walton

Cannon from Ricketts Battery at the crest of East Cemetery Hill overlooking Culp's meadow, in the distance, and the ground covered by the Sixth North Carolina in their attack on East Cemetery Hill.

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