This is the area of Gettysburg battlefield where the leading elements of the Confederates under Pickett’s orders were finally stopped. The small marker of the other side of the wall is the furthest advance of the North Carolina troops while only a few yards east the actual high water mark of the war occurred. The southern effort still dragged on across two more bloody years of war but the end was seen here and at Vicksburg, MS. The Union would endure and slavery would cease in the US.
