{{Short description|Area of the Gettysburg battlefield in the US civil war}} {{About|an area of the Gettysburg battlefield|other military engagements with similar names|Bloody Angle (disambiguation)|other uses|Angle (disambiguation)}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox landform | water = | name = The Angle | other_name = Bloody Angle | type = Historic site | image = TheAngle2.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Plaque inscribed "General Armistead and a few Confederate soldiers charged across this wall, reached the Union cannon behind it and were soon overwhelmed"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=16107|title=The Angle|website=Historical Marker Database}}</ref> <!-- map --> | pushpin_map = | pushpin_relief = | map_image = | map_caption = <!-- location --> | location = {{nowrap|plaque near north end of north-south wall}}<br>& west end of 80 ft west-east wall | coordinates = {{coord|39.81343|-77.23640|format=dms|type:landmark_region:US-PA|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref = | range = | part_of = | water_bodies = | elevation_ft = <!-- or |elevation_m = --> | elevation_ref = | surface_elevation_ft = <!-- or |surface_elevation_m = --> | surface_elevation_ref = | highest_point = | highest_elevation = | highest_coords = | length = | width = | area = | depth = | drop = | formed_by = | geology = | age = | orogeny = | volcanic_arc/belt = | volcanic_arc = | volcanic_belt = | volcanic_field = | last_eruption = | topo = | operator = | designation = | free_label_1 = | free_data_1 = | free_label_2 = | free_data_2 = | website = | embed = }} [[File:Reunion of Confederate and Federal veterans at Gettysburg.jpg|thumb|right|Old veterans clasping hands across the Angle at the 1913 Gettysburg reunion.]] '''The Angle'''<ref name=hscl>{{Citation |last=Cope |first=Emmor (Bvt Lt Col) |authorlink=Emmor Cope |year=1896 |title=The Angle - Cast Iron Site ID Tablet |url=http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=&PARK=GETT&RECORDNO=208 |format=NPS.gov webpage on List of Classified Structures |publisher=United States Department of War marker |accessdate=2011-02-11 |quote=''1 of 35 Site ID Tablets by War Dept's ... Designer ... Cope, E. B. ... Painted raised letter and border inscription tablet, 2'1"x1'8". Mounted on fluted post, 3' high.'' |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721060420/http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=&PARK=GETT&RECORDNO=208 |archive-date=2011-07-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ('''Bloody Angle''' colloq.) is a Gettysburg Battlefield area which includes the 1863 '''Copse of Trees''' used as the target landmark for Pickett's Charge, the 1892 monument that marks the high-water mark of the Confederacy, a rock wall,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?PARK=GETT&RECORDNO=1086|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924031618/http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?PARK=GETT&RECORDNO=1086|archivedate=September 24, 2015|accessdate=July 6, 2020|title=List of Classified Structures: The Angle Stone Wall, Structure Number WA03}}</ref> and several other Battle of Gettysburg monuments.
==History== The area is where approximately 1,500 Confederate Virginians broke through the July 3, 1863, Union line on Cemetery Ridge,<ref name=Canaseraga>{{Cite news |date=July 8, 1887 |title=A Gettysburg Reunion |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PEJjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KHQNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5081,463751&dq=bloody-angle+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=The Canaseraga Times |accessdate=2011-02-11 |quote=''One of the dramatic incidents of the day took place at the bloody angle where 1,500 Virginians broke through the lines held by their hosts, and where the three monuments were dedicated on the 3d''}} (of July 1887).</ref> and in 1922, the Marine Expeditionary Force of Camp Harding used The Angle in their reenactment of Pickett's Charge.<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 1, 1922 |title=Traffic Rules on Battlefield |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Zk4mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=H_8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=916,4623905&dq=wheatfield-road+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=The Star and Sentinel |accessdate=2011-01-26}}</ref> The proper noun "Bloody Angle" became common during the battlefield's commemorative era after being used as early as 1893.<ref name=NYT1893/>
A copy of the Gettysburg Cyclorama was displayed in an 1894 tent at The Angle,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bcjCWVJWMpYC&pg=PA79|page=79|title=Gettysburg: Memory, Market, and an American Shrine|first=Jim|last=Weeks|date=2011|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0691102719}}</ref> and during reunions in 1887,<ref name=Canaseraga/> 1913 (50th battle anniversary), and 1938 (75th); battle veterans shook hands over the rock wall at The Angle. The nearby field along the Emmitsburg Road was also the site of Gettysburg Battlefield camps after the American Civil War such as Eisenhower's 1918 Camp Colt, the 1938 Army Camp with the Secretary of War's quarters, and a World War II POW stockade.
The Angle is one of the few places named after the battle that is not named for a person (cf. The Loop<ref>{{cite web |title=Wayback Machine has not archived that URL. |website=www.hscl.cr.nps.gov |url=http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=&PARK=GETT&STRUCTURE=angle&SORT=&RECORDNO=189}}{{dead link|date=June 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>). As with Hancock Avenue along the east wall that extends northward, the original route planned for the 1893 Gettysburg Electric Railway was along the west wall of The Angle<ref name=NYT1893>{{Cite news |date=May 26, 1893 |title=Vandalism at Gettysburg |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/05/26/109261903.pdf |work=The New York Times |accessdate=2011-02-11 |quote=One photograph which appeared to-day showed the ground in front of the "Bloody Angle." The route of the railroad runs directly in front of the famous stone fence where Pickett's assaulting column was repulsed.}}</ref> that extends southward, and although the trolley line was moved along the Emmitsburg Road, the Gettysburg National Military Park did not acquire the trolley land at The Angle until congressional funding was appropriated in 1917.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QDNUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WjoNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1022,1680330&dq=tipton+devil's-den&hl=en|title=Want $30,000 to Purchase Land of trolley Line|quote=(headline continues) Congress Gets Measure which would Appropriate Large Amount for that Purpose. Right of Way Desired. National Park Commission Said to Favor Plan to Acquire Battlefield Ground. Beales Presents Bill.|date=January 27, 1917|publisher=Adams County News}}</ref>
==See also== * List of monuments of the Gettysburg Battlefield ==References== {{reflist}}
Category:Gettysburg Battlefield Category:Historic district contributing properties in Pennsylvania Category:National Register of Historic Places in Adams County, Pennsylvania Category:American Civil War on the National Register of Historic Places