This view, looking south along the Hagerstown Turnpike is roughly the location where the 125th Pennsylvania penetrated into the West Woods, moving left to right in this view. The Union's other two forays into the woods around the church did not pass here, but instead came up through Mumma's swale on the south side of the Smoketown road.

The 'corner' of the West Woods (where the woods jog west away from the turnpike) is just a few yards behind this position. The gully visible from view 5 is again visible, this time from the other side. From here, and even more so farther north, one can see how the rise of the terrain screens visibility of movements from within the gully.

While the 125th Pennsylvania (accompanied by the 78th & 34th New York) held the woods, Sedgwick's Division took its fatal position in the woods a little north of here. Because of this fold of terrain, Sedgwick was unable to see that the Union troops around the Dunker Church had been removed, or that enemy troops were closing fast. The result was the disaster in the West Woods.