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Charles E. Hazlett

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fire and could not work the guns effectively. More significantly, they could not depress the cannons' barrels sufficiently enough to defend against incoming infantry attacks. While standing near the battery during the intense fighting, Brig. Gen.
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was mortally wounded and asked to see Hazlett. Reportedly, Hazlett came to his aid and was shot in the head as he knelt down to hear what Weed was saying. Command of the battery passed to 2nd Lt
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in Hazlett's hometown. The chapter was named Hazlett Post 81 in honor of Hazlett and his brother, Capt. John C. Hazlett, an infantry officer who died from a wound suffered at the
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Hazlett's body was originally buried at the Jacob Weikert house near Little Round Top. Later, his body was reinterred at Woodlawn Cemetery in
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supposedly designates the spot where Hazlett was killed. A stone marker sitting atop the rock memorializes both him and Brig. Gen.
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They Lie Forgotten: The United States Military Academy, 1856-1861, Together With a Class Album for the Class of May, 1861
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The Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives For the First Session of the Fifty-first Congress, 1889-1890
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In 2011, local Civil War enthusiasts replaced the Hazlett brothers' broken tombstones at Woodlawn Cemetery in
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Looking from the position of Hazletts Battery on Little Round Top toward the Valley of Death
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Four months after Hazlett's death, the U.S. War Department named a redoubt near
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On the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Hazlett's Battery (3rd Division,
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Cushing of Gettysburg : the story of a Union artillery commander
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Charles Hazlett tombstone, Woodlawn Cemetery, Zanesville, Ohio.
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Cadet Charles E. Hazlett during his final year at the academy.
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After the Civil War, veterans formed a local chapter of the
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Union military personnel killed in the American Civil War
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View from Little Round Top July 3rd 1863 at 7:30 PM by
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1st Lieutenant Charles E. Hazlett during the Civil War
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Zanesville
Ohio
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania
United States of America
United States Army
Union Army
1st Lieutenant
Battery D, 5th U.S. Artillery
American Civil War
Battle of First Bull Run
Battle of Lewinsville
Siege of Yorktown
Battle of Hanover Court House
Battle of Gaines' Mill
Battle of Malvern Hill
Battle of Second Bull Run
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Shepherdstown
Battle of Fredericksburg
Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Gettysburg

U.S. Army
1st Lieutenant
American Civil War
Little Round Top
Battle of Gettysburg

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