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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MK9_lincolns-gettysburg-speech_Gettysburg-PA.html
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HU2_the-trademark-of-craftsmen_Gettysburg-PA.html
It is not difficult to imagine the wear on a barn from years of active farming and the changing Pennsylvania seasons. In the spring of 1875, two brothers, Samuel F. Frey and William H. Frey, painters by trade, and Hiram C. Lady, a carpenter's appr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HU1_food-preservation-of-the-past_Gettysburg-PA.html
You are now standing near the Spangler's original smokehouse, more than 160 years old. Although several changes have been made over the decades, such as the tin roof, a vast majority of the original structure still survives. Smokehouses had been p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HTX_a-farm-transformed-by-war_Gettysburg-PA.html
The barnyard and fields in front of you filled with wounded men and medical supplies in the days and weeks after the battle. Pvt. Justus Silliman, 17th Connecticut Infantry, wrote "All the hospital tents have been put up and are filled, the b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HTW_a-hospital-under-fire_Gettysburg-PA.html
As the threshing floor in front of you filled with wounded, W. R. Kiefer, 153rd Pennsylvania, noted, "The maimed were placed with heads next [to] the bays and middle partition (of the threshing floor) leaving a passageway at the feet of the p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HTV_a-temporary-resting-place_Gettysburg-PA.html
The field in front of you contained the hospital graveyard where some 185 Union and 20 Confederate soldiers were buried. Some of Spangler's own wood supplies were used to make coffins for these soldiers and even a fence around the graveyard itself…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HTU_a-family-who-would-not-leave-their-home_Gettysburg-PA.html
When the Eleventh Corps took over the farm to serve as a hospital, the Spangler family was forced to live in just one of the six rooms of their home. Wounded soldiers and medical staff occupied the other rooms. One noted patient who was treated in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GZ7_dr-rufus-benjamin-weaver_Gettysburg-PA.html
Rufus Benjamin Weaver, a native of Gettysburg, was a college student at the time of the battle in 1863. His father Samuel Weaver, a local photographer, supervised the collection and reburial of the Federal troops in the National Cemetery. Because …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G95_pardee-field_Gettysburg-PA.html
At 5 a.m. the One Hundred and Forty-Seventh Penna. Volunteers (Lt. Col. Ario Pardee Jr.) was ordered to charge and carry the stone wall occupied by the enemy this they did in handsome style their firing causing heavy loss to the enemy who then aba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G94_147th-pennsylvania-infantry_Gettysburg-PA.html
(Front):147thPennsylvania Infantry1st Brigade2d Division12th CorpsJuly 3d 1863.(Back):Mustered in Oct. 28th 1862. Re-enlisted Dec. 29th 1863. Mustered out July 15th 1865. On the night of July 1st this regiment lay on the northern slope of Little R…