Word: hillocks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...taken position in a wide semi-circle outside of this ridge, stationed largely on a parallel ridge called Seminary Ridge. His army was impatient, and Lee determined to attack. Longstreet drove in an advanced angle of the Federal line near Round Top, and almost gained that important hillock. On the other end of the line Ewell and Johnson made an attack near Culps, and at evening the latter general was on that eminence. A portion of the Federal line near the centre had also been broken through for a time. This condition of affairs much encouraged the Confederates; but they...