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    Seminary Ridge is a dendritic ridge that served as an area of military engagements during the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest battle of the American...
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    Buford laid out his defenses on three ridges west of the town: Herr Ridge, McPherson Ridge and Seminary Ridge. These were appropriate terrain for a delaying...
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    first building on the ridge west of the borough, the ridge now eing known as Seminary Ridge. Following Schmucker, the seminary had "faculty chairmen"...
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    artillery reserve in a second line behind. The ground between Seminary Ridge and Cemetery Ridge is slightly undulating, and the advancing troops periodically...
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    ridge near Little Round Top; Brig. Gen. John Buford's cavalry division formed a skirmish line in the fields between Cemetery Ridge and Seminary Ridge...
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    The Oak Ridge Seminary (Oak Ridge Female Seminary, Oak-Ridge Academy) was an antebellum school for "young ladies" west of the borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania...
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    dislodging them. He decided to utilize three ridges west of Gettysburg: Herr Ridge, McPherson Ridge, and Seminary Ridge (proceeding west to east toward the town)...
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    Union line on Cemetery Ridge was repulsed with significant losses. The Confederates returned to their positions on Seminary Ridge and prepared to receive...
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    is a public artwork by American sculptor Gutzon Borglum located on Seminary Ridge, West Confederate Avenue, in the Gettysburg National Military Park....
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    along with the Seminary Seminary Ridge Historic Preservation Foundation, rehabilitated the building for adaptive reuse as the Seminary Ridge Museum. The...
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    way for Abner M. Perrin's brigade to break through the Union line on Seminary Ridge and force the enemy to retreat toward Cemetery Hill. During this attack...
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  • for the remainder of the first day. At Confederate headquarters at Seminary Ridge, Maj. Gen. Isaac R. Trimble angrily denounces Ewell's inaction to Lee...
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  • Illinois Seminary Garden, a garden in Prague, Czech Republic Seminary Magazine, a 1863–1873 literary publication in Richmond, Virginia Seminary Ridge, Gettysburg...
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    Soon after arrival on Seminary Ridge, both Union and Confederate artillery opened fire. According to General R. H. Anderson, the ridge that the enemy forces...
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  • several ridges west of Gettysburg, the first cut running through Seminary Ridge, near the southern end of Oak Ridge, and another through McPherson's Ridge. The...
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    with the Iron Brigade, digging in following their fierce battle on Seminary Ridge. Johnson's party was taken by surprise and almost taken prisoner before...
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    names: authors list (link) Dreese, Michael A. (2002). The Hospital on Seminary Ridge at the Battle of Gettysburg (Google Books). McFarland. p. 130. ISBN 9780786412242...
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    Gettysburg, where Lt. James Stewart's Battery B, 4th U.S. Artillery on Seminary Ridge skipped canister shot at Alfred M. Scales's approaching Confederate...
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    down the spine of Cemetery Ridge. The Army of Northern Virginia line was roughly parallel to the Union's, on Seminary Ridge and on an arc northwest, north...
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    arrived on June 26 to guard the battlefield,: '13  camping west of Seminary Ridge on the Hagerstown Road. A "model Camp" for a Pennsylvania cavalry squadron...
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  • reserve on Seminary Ridge, the ridge closest to town and named for the Lutheran Theological Seminary that stood there. While placed near the Seminary, the 151st...
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    houses throughout the town, notably the Schmucker House located on Seminary Ridge. The furniture manufacturing industry employed people in Gettysburg...
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    nine and ten o'clock when we first noticed firing in the direction of Seminary Ridge. At first the sound was faint, then it grew louder. Soon the booming...
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    Public Library. Another Borglum design is the North Carolina Monument on Seminary Ridge at the Gettysburg Battlefield in south-central Pennsylvania. The cast...
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    arrived to defend Seminary Ridge at the borough's west side. Oak Ridge, a northward extension of both McPherson Ridge and Seminary Ridge, is capped by Oak...
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    farther." As soldiers straggled back to the Confederate lines along Seminary Ridge, Lee feared a Union counteroffensive and tried to rally his center,...
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    Confederacy or high tide of the Confederacy refers to an area on Cemetery Ridge near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, marking the farthest point reached by Confederate...
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    military, the Eisenhowers made their home near Gettysburg, west of Seminary Ridge. Report of the Gettysburg National Military Park Commission, 1918 (Report)...
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    earlier refused. Hill ordered Pender to attack the new Union position on Seminary Ridge at about 4 p.m. The 30-minute assault by three of his brigades was very...
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  • relocated to Seminary Ridge overlooking Gettysburg, becoming the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. In July 1863, the seminary's premises and environs...
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