This image is of Sgt. Ransom Y. Hazard, who was quite busy 160 years ago this month. Hazard was in the ranks of the 137th New York Infantry of Brig. Gen. George S. Greene’s brigade. Greene’s brigade was on Culp’s Hill at Gettysburg, and on the evening of July 2nd his five regiments held off a vigorous attack by a Confederate division and likely saved the Union right flank from collapsing. Hazard’s regiment held the right of Greene’s line. Its doughty defense held on long enough, just long enough, for reinforcements to arrive and stabilize the line. Hazard was there and managed to survive the hazards of that battle.
The 137th heroics are on a scale with those of the 20th Maine on Little Round Top, but not nearly as well known because they weren’t featured in a novel or a movie. But more about that some other time!
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