A cloudy October 10, 2009 look at the statue of Major General Oliver O. Howard, at the point southeast of Gettysburg on Cemetery Hill, where he had established a fallback position that allowed the Union forces to rally after their defeat on July 1st, 1863.
For a large part of the day on July 1st after General Reynolds was killed and until the arrival of General Hancock he was senior Union commander on the battlefield.
tagged: oliver o. howard gettysburg monument bare tree clouds
