The Gettysburg Campaign Study Guide: Study Guide for the Gettsyburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Exam, Volume 2

By Rea Andrew Redd

The Gettysburg Campaign Exam Study Guide, Volume Two contains 600+ questions and answers regarding the armies, chronologies, maps, cemeteries, commanders of the 1863 Pennsylvania Campaign. The book's format and content help a students' exam performance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Savas Publishing
• Release date: Dec 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781940669427

Rea Andrew Redd

Rea Andrew Redd is a native of Washington County, Pennsylvania. He received a baccalaureate degree in history and English at Waynesburg University in 1970. He received a masters degree in history at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and a masters degree of library science from the University of Pittsburgh, 1993. His Pennsylvania certification for social studies education, grades 7-12 was earned from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1982. Currently he is the director of Eberly Library, Waynesburg University and serves as an instructor of American history there also. Since 1993 he has reenacted the American Civil War as a Federal infantryman, a Federal Medical Service captain, and as President Abraham Lincoln.

Book preview

—— SECTION NINETEEN ——

ESSENTIAL MONUMENTS: JUNE 30, JULY 1

View south down Cemetery Ridge to the Round Tops from High Water Mark Monument. (1909s) Tipton #2341

1. First Shot Marker, Chambersburg Road west of Marsh Creek

2. Brigadier General John Buford, Chambersburg Road

3. Major General John Reynolds, Chambersburg Road

4. 149th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Chambersburg Road

5. 2nd Maine Battery, [Hall’s], Chambersburg Road

6. Typical Federal Brigade Marker, Meredith Avenue

7. 150th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Buford Avenue

8. John Burns [citizen], Buford Avenue

9. 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Meredith Avenue

1. 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Meredith Avenue

2. 24th Michigan Volunteer Infantry, Meredith Avenue

3. 26th North Carolina Volunteer Infantry, Meredith Avenue

4. 19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Meredith Avenue

5. 8th New York Cavalry, Reynolds Avenue

6. Major General Abner Doubleday, Reynolds Avenue

7. 142nd Pennsylvania Volunteers, Reynolds Avenue

8. 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Buford Avenue

9. 95th New York Volunteer Infantry, Buford Avenue

1. 14th Brooklyn/84 New York Volunteer Infantry, Buford Avenue

2. Brigadier General James Wadsworth

3. 56th Pennsylvania, Buford Avenue

4. 6th New York Cavalry, Buford Avenue

5. 9th New York Cavalry, Buford Avenue

6. 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Buford Avenue

7. Peace Light Memorial, Mummasburg Road

8. 90th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Doubleday Avenue

9. 12th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Double Day Avenue

1. Brigadier General John Robinson, Doubleday Avenue

2. 83rd New York Volunteer Infantry, Doubleday Avenue

3. 88th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Doubleday Avenue

4. 13th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Robinson Avenue

5. 11th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Doubleday Avenue

6. 94th New York Volunteer Infantry, Doubleday Avenue

7. 121st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Reynolds Avenue

8. 20th New York State Militia/80th New York Volunteer Infantry, Howard Avenue

9. 45th New York Volunteer Infantry, Howard Avenue

1. 74th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Howard Avenue

2. 82nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Howard Avenue

3. Brigadier General Francis Barlow

4. 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Howard Avenue

5. 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Howard Avenue

6. 27th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Coster Avenue

7. 154 New York Volunteer Infantry, Coster Avenue

8. 26th Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, Springs at Buford Avenues

9. Sergeant Amos Humiston and Children, Stratton Avenue

1. 151st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Meredith at Reynolds Avenues

2. 143 Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, intersection of Chambersburg Road and Reynolds Avenue

—— SECTION TWENTY ——

JULY 2: MEADE INSPECTS HIS LINES AND LONGSTREET BEGINS HIS ASSAULT ON DEVILS DEN, PLUM RUN, AND LITTLE ROUND TOP

On November 29 1862 George Gordon Meade was promoted to Major General of Volunteers, and on December 25 1862 he was given command of the 5th Corps which he led at Chancellorsville. On June 28, 1863, Meade was given command of the Army of the Potomac. After the Battle of Gettysburg, he was promoted to Brigadier General in the U.S. Army [Regular] for his actions and given the thanks of Congress.

QUESTIONS:

1.   At what time did Meade first inspect his lines on July 2, and what was his route?

2.   After his inspection, what orders did Meade give to Hancock?

3.   After his inspection, what command change did Meade make?

4.   After his inspection, what order did Meade give to Sickles?

5.   To what location was the 12th Corps sent?

6.   Around dawn which corps commander called to Meade’s attention to the proximity of the Confederates to Baltimore Pike?

7.   At around 10a where was the far right flank of the Federal army and which corps was there?

8.   Around dawn, what orders did Henry Hunt give?

9.   On the Federal right flank, what crucial gap did Hunt plug with artillery?

10. At what time did Meade order Slocum to prepare to make an assault on the Confederate left?

11. During the morning on which road did Sykes 5th Corps approach the battlefield?

12. At what time did Longstreet’s July 2 infantry assault begin?

13. Which division and brigades started the assault?

14. Law’s Brigade consisted of troops from which state?

15. Robertson’s Brigade consisted of troops from which two states?

16. Which brigades supported Law’s and Robertson’s brigades?

17. Under what conditions had Law’s brigade reached the battlefield?

18. What caused Law’s brigade to split in half and go in two directions?

19. What caused Laws to move the 44th and 48th Alabama from the right flank to the left flank?

20. After marching on the right of Law’s Brigade, where did the 44th and 48th Alabama reform?

21. Which Federal troops and from what location first fired into Law’s brigade?

22. After falling back from the Slyder Farm buildings, where did 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters take up another position?

23. In which directions did the 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters evacuate the summit of Big Round Top?

24. As his regiment rested on the summit of Big Round Top, what news did a courier bring to William Oates, colonel of the 15th Alabama?

25. What ANV units occupied the western slope of Big Round Top and Plum Run Valley while the 45th and 15th Alabama were near the summit?

26. At approximately what time did Vincent’s Brigade occupy the summit of Little Round Top?

27. List the regiments in Vincent’s Brigade, from the Federal left to right, when it was finally situated on Little Round Top

28. What reasons did members of the 4th and 48th Alabama, 4th and 5th Texas give for not capturing Little Round Top’s crest?

29. To what division and corps did Vincent’s Brigade belong?

30. Which Federal regiment from another brigade was ordered to assist Vincent’s brigade in the immediate defense of Little Round Top? From what brigade, division and corps did it come?

31. Which Federal artillery battery joined Vincent’s Brigade on Little Round Top? Who commanded it?

32. Soldiers of which units assaulted the 15th Alabama as it began