So my adventure started last year when I found this site: http://gburginfo.brinkster.net/battlefieldcarvings.htm I got pretty excited about this information on carvings at gettysburg. I quickly decided to go on a "scavanger hunt". Armed with this new information, and the directions provided in the link above, I soon on my way! I spent a few interesting hours enjoying the battlefield & looking for engravings left by the veterans. These carvings often predate the monuments... here's just a couple.
Captain Acheson's stone "grave marker "is a warm tribute to a well beloved brother and comrade. Acheson of company C, 140th Pennsylvania Volunteers, was killed July 2nd 1863 on the J. Weikert farm. After the fighting the captain was buried near this rock. Its marked with his initials and regiment. Acheson was later reinterned.
This regiment campaigned with Army Of The Potomac from Chancellorsville to Appomattox. According to Soldiers and Sailors Database, total loses during the Civil War were, "10 Officers and 188 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 127 Enlisted men by disease. Total 326."
Pvt. Augustus L. Coble of the 1st NC infantry, Co E. left his mark between the halves of this "split boulder" seen below. The site is at the base of Culp's Hill and proximal to Spangler Spring.
Like many Civil War regiments, the service of the 1st NC was one of extreme sacrifice on many fields of battle. According to "The soldiers and sailors database" the 1st NC was a huge regiment when mustered in to Confederate service in spring of 1861. The regiment could boast a whopping 1500 officers and men. They saw action from Seven Day's to the end of the war. After 4 years bloodshed only 10 officers and 65 men would be present to surrender at Appomattox...
The 1st NC was apart of Gen. George H. "Maryland" Stueart's brigade at Gettysburg and took part in the disastrous attack across "Pardee Field", on July 3rd. But years later the returning veteran remembered this earlier position and carved his name and regiment into the stone. From here Coble would have had a good field of fire to across Spangler Spring. However the position no doubt provided much more... protection and shelter. So many thousands of rounds were fired at Culp's Hill that for years after the battle trees were dieing of lead posioning!
craving of the Stone reads "A L Coble 1st NC reg"
Captain Acheson's stone "grave marker "is a warm tribute to a well beloved brother and comrade. Acheson of company C, 140th Pennsylvania Volunteers, was killed July 2nd 1863 on the J. Weikert farm. After the fighting the captain was buried near this rock. Its marked with his initials and regiment. Acheson was later reinterned.
This regiment campaigned with Army Of The Potomac from Chancellorsville to Appomattox. According to Soldiers and Sailors Database, total loses during the Civil War were, "10 Officers and 188 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 127 Enlisted men by disease. Total 326."
Pvt. Augustus L. Coble of the 1st NC infantry, Co E. left his mark between the halves of this "split boulder" seen below. The site is at the base of Culp's Hill and proximal to Spangler Spring.
Like many Civil War regiments, the service of the 1st NC was one of extreme sacrifice on many fields of battle. According to "The soldiers and sailors database" the 1st NC was a huge regiment when mustered in to Confederate service in spring of 1861. The regiment could boast a whopping 1500 officers and men. They saw action from Seven Day's to the end of the war. After 4 years bloodshed only 10 officers and 65 men would be present to surrender at Appomattox...
The 1st NC was apart of Gen. George H. "Maryland" Stueart's brigade at Gettysburg and took part in the disastrous attack across "Pardee Field", on July 3rd. But years later the returning veteran remembered this earlier position and carved his name and regiment into the stone. From here Coble would have had a good field of fire to across Spangler Spring. However the position no doubt provided much more... protection and shelter. So many thousands of rounds were fired at Culp's Hill that for years after the battle trees were dieing of lead posioning!
craving of the Stone reads "A L Coble 1st NC reg"
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