View of the outline of old trenches to the east of Battery 5 looking back up the hill at the battery.
This view is looking due north towards Fort Stedman from Fort Haskell along the Union lines.
This photo was taken looking west over the Taylor Farm. In the distance, you can see the hill on which the crater is found.
The entrance to the tunnel was about 100 yards down hill from the Confederate lines.
The Yankees were not the only soldiers digging mine shafts. Rumors reached the Rebels that the enemy was digging tunnels to their lines. To try to catch the Yankees, the Confederate Army started to dig their own shafts to find them.
Looking into the crater from the east. This would have been the view of the rushing Union soldiers.
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McPhearson Farm, Gettysburg The McPhearson Farm saw some of the heaviest fighting on the morning of the first day (July 1, 1863) of battle. |