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Camp Colt
In 1918 the fields that Pickett's Charge crossed were covered in tents again, this time by the United States Tank Corps. Camp Colt was the army's first tank training centre, roughly a hundred and nine…
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Camp Letterman
For four months in 1863 the largest tent hospital of the war stood in a field beside the York Pike, a mile and a half east of Gettysburg. The armies marched away in early July and left about twenty on…
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Daniel Lady Farm
This stone farmhouse, built in 1822, and the bank barn added twenty years later sat directly behind the Confederate left for two days of the battle, and what happened here was not fighting but its aft…
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George Spangler Farm
The Spangler family farmed a hundred and sixty six acres here behind Cemetery Ridge, far enough back to be out of the fighting and close enough to be useful, which is how the property became the Eleve…
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Home Of A Rebel Sharpshooter
One of the most reproduced photographs of the Civil War was taken at Devil's Den on 6 July 1863, and it was staged. Alexander Gardner and his assistant Timothy O'Sullivan titled it Home of a Rebel Sha…
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John Burns
John Burns was 69 years old, a former constable of Gettysburg with a reputation for being difficult, and on 1 July 1863 he put on his coat, picked up an old flintlock musket and a powder horn and walk…
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Kuhn's Brickyard
The Eleventh Corps got off the field on the first day of Gettysburg because of a stand made in a brickyard on a back street, and it lasted less than half an hour. On the afternoon of 1 July 1863 the c…
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Lincoln Cemetery
The Black labourers of Gettysburg found, dug up and carried in most of the Union dead who lie in the Soldiers' National Cemetery, and could not be buried there themselves. This ground on Long Lane is …
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The Bliss Farm
There is nothing here now, and that is the point. William Bliss's farm stood in the open ground between Seminary Ridge and Cemetery Ridge, which put it squarely in the space between two armies. His ba…
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The First Shot
The battle began here, about three miles west of Gettysburg, at roughly half past seven on the morning of 1 July 1863. Lieutenant Marcellus Jones of the 8th Illinois Cavalry was on picket at the Ephra…
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The Jacob Weikert Farm
At about one in the afternoon on 1 July 1863, with the fighting already audible north of town, a neighbour named Hettie Schriver set out for her father's farm three miles down the Taneytown Road and a…
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The Rose Farm
George Rose's farm took the heaviest concentrated fighting of 2 July 1863, and then it took the burials. The Wheatfield, Rose Woods and the ground up to Sherfy's peach orchard were all on or beside th…
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The Trostle Barn
Look at the south side of this brick barn and there is a hole punched through it by a shell, left unrepaired since 2 July 1863. It is the most direct piece of physical evidence on the battlefield of w…
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Where Lincoln Stood
The most asked question on this battlefield is where Lincoln stood to give the Gettysburg Address, and it is still open. For a century the answer was assumed to be here, at the Soldiers' National Monu…