The Battle of Gettysburg is now over, but the clean-up continues around and across town on July 4th. In all of this confusion, Tillie hears that her family is safe at the house and for the time being should stay outside of town at the Weikert Farm. On July 5, Tillie and some friends climb to the crest of Little Round Top and survey the battlefield below:
“By this time the Union dead had been principally carried off the field, and those that remained were Confederates.
“As we stood upon those mighty boulders, and looked down into the chasms between, we beheld the dead lying there just as they had fallen during the struggle. From the summit of Little Round Top, surrounded by the wrecks of battle, we gazed upon the valley of death beneath. The view there spread out before us was terrible to contemplate! It was an awful spectacle! Dead soldiers, bloated horses, shattered cannon and caissons, thousands of small arms. In fact everything belonging to army equipment’s, was there in one confused and indescribable mass.”