Hacking and boarding house

[2ndDEboy]

Who has heard of the hacking and boarding house in Gettysburg

 

[eBrowne]

A "hack and boarding" house means to live in one unit and rent out the others. I assume there are a number of those in Gettysburg.

 

[2ndDEboy]

A "hack and boarding" house means to live in one unit and rent out the others. I assume there are a number of those in Gettysburg.

This would have to been present during the battle

 

[infomanpa]

A "hack and boarding" house means to live in one unit and rent out the others. I assume there are a number of those in Gettysburg.

Thanks. I have never heard of this term before.

 

[eBrowne]

Can you give us more context to this.

 

[2ndDEboy]

Can you give us more context to this.

There was a canteen found at Gettysburg early after the battle , part of the gieselman collection that was labeled to be from the hacking and boarding house

 

[eBrowne]

A "hacking and boarding house" seems to be an odd phrase. To "hack" can mean to cut into pieces, so one meaning of "to house hack" is to cut a house into apartments. However to say a "hacking and boarding house" seems to be a redundant phrase. I wonder if "hacking" means a place that rented horses and carriages. A "hack" is a taxicab or an older, worn out horse used to pull a carriage. So, I wonder if this refers to a place in Gettysburg where one might have boarded and which one might also have been able to rent a horse and carriage?

 

[2ndDEboy]

A "hacking and boarding house" seems to be an odd phrase. To "hack" can mean to cut into pieces, so one meaning of "to house hack" is to cut a house into apartments. However to say a "hacking and boarding house" seems to be a redundant phrase. I wonder if "hacking" means a place that rented horses and carriages. A "hack" is a taxicab or an older, worn out horse used to pull a carriage. So, I wonder if this refers to a place in Gettysburg where one might have boarded and which one might also have been able to rent a horse and carriage?

Hard to say maybe whatever building it was it may have been occupied by soldiers during the battle

 

[Tom Elmore]

All the hotels in town had stables where guests kept their horses, including the McClellan House on the square, the Eagle Hotel (Washington House), and the Zeph. Herbert Hotel. Also, the Wagon Hotel, at the intersection of the Emmitsburg and Taneytown roads near the foot of Cemetery Hill - and the latter hotel grounds were occupied by Union skirmishers/sharpshooters during the battle.

 

[2ndDEboy]

All the hotels in town had stables where guests kept their horses, including the McClellan House on the square, the Eagle Hotel (Washington House), and the Zeph. Herbert Hotel. Also, the Wagon Hotel, at the intersection of the Emmitsburg and Taneytown roads near the foot of Cemetery Hill - and the latter hotel grounds were occupied by Union skirmishers/sharpshooters during the battle.

Any of the ones you mentioned on York street?

 

[Tom Elmore]

None that I can find, but the street map from Blue&Gray Magazine does not show York Street all the way out to the eastern edge of the town. However, a carriage shop is shown just off York Street, and I recall that a Union battery put a round directly into a carriage shop somewhere in town, apparently to clear out Confederate skirmishers posted there.

 

[2ndDEboy]

None that I can find, but the street map from Blue&Gray Magazine does not show York Street all the way out to the eastern edge of the town. However, a carriage shop is shown just off York Street, and I recall that a Union battery put a round directly into a carriage shop somewhere in town, apparently to clear out Confederate skirmishers posted there.

Can you site this source so I can read up on it?