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Rocco painting of Meade's 1 a.m. battlefield arrival The Bivouac
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Rocco painting of Meade's 1 a.m. battlefield arrival
<i>The Bivouac</i>

Credit: ©1996, Keith Rocco and Traditional Studios, www.keithrocco.com

Keith Rocco's painting The Bivouac, shows Union commander George Gordon Meade in the pre-dawn darkness on Cemetery Hill, looking west towards the Confederate positions near Seminary Ridge. The soldiers sleeping near their stacked rifles would have belonged to Brigadier General John Robinson's Second Division, First Army Corps, which sustained fearful casualties on the first day of fighting.

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