A Stroll Through Devil's Den

[Gettysburg Greg]

It is shaped like the head of the cartoon character of Pink Panther (a cartoonish panther head -- complete with grin and nose)

I learned this from @Gettysburg Greg . Can you help me out, Greg, and show the traced out picture of the head that you once posted?

Hello, @Bee nice to hear from an old friend. I do have the Pink Panther overlay for you. I recently heard Tim Smith mention the resemblance to the PP when Table Rock is viewed from this angle.

 

[Bee]

Hello, @Bee nice to hear from an old friend. I do have the Pink Panther overlay for you. I recently heard Tim Smith mention the resemblance to the PP when Table Rock is viewed from this angle.
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Thank you, Greg!! Everything I know about Devil's Den, I learned from your posts

 

[Kip124thNY]

Nice pictures, thanks for posting.

 

[rpkennedy]

"More Rocks" would be the title of the book if my youngest daughter ever wrote about Gettysburg.

Ryan

 

[leeclibby]

This post might be called More Rocks:

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Rounding out the tour, a view of The Sharpshooter's Den:

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Great pictures! I like the creative photography. Gives a close-up perspective of what the soldiers may have visualized with tunnel vision while in the midst of the fighting. Thank you for sharing!

 

[jackt62]

Beautiful!

 

[rebelatsea]

I noticed what appears to be a fair amount of fresh spalling in some of those photos, does Gettysburg suffer severe frosts after rain in the winter?

 

[BigMuddy]

Thank you for posting the pictures. Brings back memories of my visit last year, one of the highlights of my life. One cannot visit "The Den" without hearing the voices. A very solemn place.

Dan

 

[James N.]

Pink Panther rock. I like rocks

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Hello, @Bee nice to hear from an old friend. I do have the Pink Panther overlay for you. I recently heard Tim Smith mention the resemblance to the PP when Table Rock is viewed from this angle.View attachment 201896

"More Rocks" would be the title of the book if my youngest daughter ever wrote about Gettysburg.

Ryan

This was the only individual Devil's Den rock I bothered to photograph myself, and that was because of its association with Alfred Waud and Alexander Gardner:

 

[Bee]

This was the only individual Devil's Den rock I bothered to photograph myself, and that was because of its association with Alfred Waud and Alexander Gardner:

Since you reminded me of this piece of history, I cannot look at this rock without 'seeing' Alfred Waud perched upon it!

 

[Bee]

Folks ask me why I am nearly obsessed with Devil's Den. The answer is simple: These are the true monuments of the battle. The men lived, fought, and died amongst these silent sentinels. They do not venerate, nor do they let us forget. They are my favourite Civil War monuments.

 

[Stock]

Devils Den is a really special place, geologically speaking and because of the Gettysburg fight. I first visited it when I was very young, maybe 8 or 9 yoa, in the 1950s. And 60 years later, I STILL love moving about the rocks and imagining who might have stood there or fell there long ago. Great photos!!

 

[Stock]

Folks ask me why I am nearly obsessed with Devil's Den. The answer is simple: These are the true monuments of the battle. The men lived, fought, and died amongst these silent sentinels. They do not venerate, nor do they let us forget. They are my favourite Civil War monuments.

I agree 100% with you. A special place.

 

[Ethan S.]

I could live there! Man, I would love to Visit Gettysburg again. This time, I'm old enough to own a professional grade camera, and have a few bucks for bullets.

 

[upton j.]

Here's a couple i took last year. The last picture is elephant rock.

 

[MRB1863]

...and then there's the Den of the Devil...the actual Devil's Den...

 

[James N.]

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For some reason that reminds me of one of the most disappointing historical sites I ever ferreted out, Wolf's Lair or Putnam's Cave in rural Connecticut near Pomfret. In my photo you can see some jerk has stolen the plaque beside the entrance, which I reached after a long hike from a parking area into an unexpected wilderness. (In Connecticut??) According to the story, Colonial outdoorsman, hero of Rogers' Rangers, and Revolutionary War general the legendary Israel Putnam as a young man tracked a she-wolf to her lair here, crawled inside on all fours, and shot the beast which had been raiding nearby farms, then dragging the body out and hauling it away in order to collect the bounty on it. But as you can see, the current condition of the empty and very shallow "cave" - more a mere cleft in the rock - somehow fails to recall memories of this once-famous incident performed by a Patriot who is now all but forgotten.

 

[bankerpapaw]

I remember the line from the movie "Gettysburg" Hood told Longstreet, "Worst ground I ever saw!!!"