There are thousands of railroad cuts in the United States, but for Civil War historians there is only one RAILROAD CUT. At the beginning of the battle of Gettysburg on 1 July 1863 Confederate troops attacking from the right piled into the railroad cut for cover (there were no rails laid, but the line had been cut and filled to Hagerstown, MD). A Federal counter attack from the left trapped them at the bottom of this cut and Yanks standing on the top killed and wounded hundreds of rebs and captured hundreds more.

Photographed by Elliott Hoffman, August 19, 2008.
Added to the photo archive by Elliott Hoffman, August 25, 2008.
Railroad: CSX.

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