Seventh U.S. Infantry

With the Army of the Potomac's Fifth Corps, Second Division, Second Brigade, the Seventh U.S. Infantry, consisting of four companies under Captain David R. Hancock, arrived on July 2 in the morning and first took position with the brigade on the right of the Twelfth Corps. Later it moved with the brigade to the left and at 5 p.m. formed line on the right of Little Round Top, advanced across Plum Run to the crest of the rocky wooded hill in front near the Wheatfield, and, facing left, occupied the stone wall on the edge of the woods. After Confederates opened fire on the right flank and advanced through the Wheatfield in the rear, the brigade withdrew under deadly musketry on both flanks and the rear and under shot and shell from the batteries, then formed line on the right of Little Round Top. On July 3 it remained in the same position. On July 4 it advanced nearly a mile in support of a skirmish line of the Twelfth and Fourteenth Infantry. Its casualties were 1 officer and 11 men killed, 3 officers and 42 men wounded, and 2 men missing.

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