From The Crossroads: Walls Of Fame on Culp’s Hill
By D. Scott Hartwig
JULY 2018 • AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
When the Army of the Potomac’s 12th Corps arrived on Culp’s Hill early in the morning July 2, 1863, 2nd Division commander Brig. Gen. John Geary “submitted…the question of building rifle-pits†to his three brigade leaders—Colonel Charles Candy, Colonel George A. Cobham Jr., and Brig. Gen. George Sears Greene. Doing so was not Geary’s choice. He was of the mindset that building defensive works “unfitted the men for fighting without them.â€
At this point of the war, Geary’s opinion was not unusual on either side. Although both armies sometimes built breastworks and earthworks in battles preceding Gettysburg, their construction in the face of the enemy was not standard doctrine, as it would become in 1864. At Gettysburg, in fact, Culp’s Hill was the only location where true field works were constructed.
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