Myths of Gettysburg

[samgrant]

Myths:

Sleepy Town of Gettysburg

The Shoe Factory of Gettysburg

The Armies Accidentally Met at Gettysburg

These and more are explored in this article:

http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/articl...iew.cfm?AID=75

[hoosier]

Interesting article.

Just one item to nit-pick about - the name of the Pennsylvania governor was spelled Curtin, not Curtain. My wife once worked for a law firm in which one of the governor's descendants was a partner.

[gary]

Wasn't the shoe myth created by Henry Heth? If there were shoes, the Confederate column that passed through Gettysburg earlier in the campaign would have grabbed them up too.

[gary]

BTW, doesn't Gettysburg take its name from Samuel Getty and Getty's Tavern? During the Revolutionary War, a company of riflemen were raised in Getty's Tavern.

[samgrant]

Originally Posted by gary

Wasn't the shoe myth created by Henry Heth? If there were shoes, the Confederate column that passed through Gettysburg earlier in the campaign would have grabbed them up too.

Must have been the first thing to come to his mind when Gen. Lee asked him what the heck he thought he was doing.

[hoosier]

Originally Posted by gary

BTW, doesn't Gettysburg take its name from Samuel Getty and Getty's Tavern? During the Revolutionary War, a company of riflemen were raised in Getty's Tavern.

Samuel Gettys (the family name was spelled with an s) did indeed have a tavern within the confines of what is now Gettysburg. It was Samuel's son James who actually laid out the town, with a central square at the location of his father's tavern. IIRC, the historical markers on the outskirts of town indicate that the town is officially named for James Gettys, rather than Samuel.

[SpiritofPickett]

Originally Posted by hoosier

Interesting article.

Just one item to nit-pick about - the name of the Pennsylvania governor was spelled Curtin, not Curtain. My wife once worked for a law firm in which one of the governor's descendants was a partner.

...........we won't tell anyone.

[samgrant]

As the Grand Poobah of the CWT Trivia Game, Hoosier is a spe******t in picking nits.

(will "that is his specialty" work?)

[whitworth]

The site was shut down for access.

However, the Great Shoe Factory and the High Water mark of the Confederacy is great inside joke material.

The inside joke is that their never was a modern shoe factory or any high water to speak of, in Adams County and Gettysburg.

Gettysburg never had a great enough water supply to support a then modern shoe factory, nor was there a large river in Adams County to ever have much "high water."

[gary]

Wow. You're well informed. Now, is the city square that Samuel Getty's Tavern the present site of the roundabout? If so, what establishment occupies the site of Getty's Tavern?