No old growth certainly makes that plausible.To me lt looks like an old road bed. Could have been a logging road many years ago..
Aren't those UNION graves? (I'm aware of but unfamiliar with that particular map.) If it's an actual burial trench I would've expected it to have been for Confederate burials.View attachment 396631It’s right here
No, those are Confederate graves (per Elliott's key).Aren't those UNION graves? (I'm aware of but unfamiliar with that particular map.) If it's an actual burial trench I would've expected it to have been for Confederate burials.
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If [U]JHamilton[/U] placed it on the Elliott map correctly, it probably wouldn't be an entrenchment (assuming the original map shows the correct sites of the burial trenches). The feature crosses several burial trenches shown on the map. Had there been works there I don't think they would have dug burial trenches across them. They would have simply thrown the dead into the works and covered them over. Job complete....half the work.It couldn't be an entrenchment guarding a crossing over the stream?
Lubliner.
Bear in mind that the "works" on Culp's Hill were really not trenches. They are breast works, piles of rocks and logs (actually some soldiers reported using cord wood that was found in the area). Bodies could not be thrown into the works and covered up. But I would agree that the map shows the location of the pathway to be east of the works. One theory that occurred to me (albeit unsupported by evidence at this point) is that this might be the remains of a trail used when the Confederate bodies were removed in the 1870's.If [U]JHamilton[/U] placed it on the Elliott map correctly, it probably wouldn't be an entrenchment (assuming the original map shows the correct sites of the burial trenches). The feature crosses several burial trenches shown on the map. Had there been works there I don't think they would have dug burial trenches across them. They would have simply thrown the dead into the works and covered them over. Job complete....half the work.
Is this the actual beginning and end or just an illustration where it is located and the direction?View attachment 396631It’s right here
If the monument that is somewhat hidden in the middle image is the Confederate 2nd Maryland (really the 1st Maryland), then this could be the continuation of a burial trench. There were some Confeds buried very close to where that monument stands today. I don't know how far the trench extended.I found this on Culp’s Hill in the ravine. It runs parallel to the stream. It’s not wide enough to be a farm lane. What do you think?
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