Attack on Little Round Top held by the 5th Corps commanded by General Sykes – Historic Print
![Attack on Little Round Top held by the 5th Corps commanded by General Sykes, [between 1865 and 1895] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8f/8f6e34c3d57e-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Attack on Little Round Top held by the 5th Corps commanded by General Sykes
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Few places at Gettysburg saw fiercer fighting than Little Round Top, the rocky hill on the southern end of the Union line that this painting shows under attack by the 5th Corps, commanded by General George Sykes. Sykes's men reached the hill on the afternoon of July 2, 1863, in time to help hold its slopes against Confederate assaults that threatened to roll up the Union flank. Painted in the decades after the war, the work reflects how Gettysburg had become a central touchstone of national memory, and the boulder-strewn terrain it depicts explains why the fighting was so desperate.
| Created / published | [between 1865 and 1895] |
|---|---|
| Genre | Oil paintings American 1860-1900. |
| Notes | Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.284) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Sykes, George--1822-1880. Battlefields--1860-1900.United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 972 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176420 |
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