Gettysburg - Oak Ridge

Oak Ridge was the site of the opening day battle of the Civil War. Confederate troops struck the Union positions at the McPherson Farm and along Oak Ridge. General Robert E. Rodes' Division of Ewell's Corps, having marched from Carlisle, struck toward the right of the 1st Corps on Oak Ridge, the northern extension of Seminary Ridge. A Union brigade commanded by Colonel Henry Baxter repulsed several Confederate assaults and annihilated a North Carolina Brigade commanded by Brig. General Alfred Iverson.