Where is it Wednesday, Gettysburg?

[MRB1863]

Identify this site:

 

[ronzzo]

John Wentz farm house foundation.

 

[SF_Byers]

Wentz Farm House Foundation on the Northeast Corner of the Emittsburg Road and the Wheatfield Road.

 

[eBrowne]

If so, is that the base of Battery E, 1st R.I. in the background?

 

[reading48]

That's my answer as well .... You Guys beat me to it ..

 

[ronzzo]

If so, is that the base of Battery E, 1st R.I. in the background?

Yes it is.

 

[Gettysburg Guide #154]

The SW corner of the intersection is land owned at the time of the battle by John Wentz's son, Henry. Henry, who had moved to Virginia prior to the war, was a sergeant in Taylor's Virginia Battery located near the Warfield property, and firing in the direction of his Father's house.

 

[Tom Elmore]

It is the only known silk production site on the battlefield.

("Old man [John Wentz] and old woman [Mrs. Wentz, his second wife], owners of the house, fed silkworms in the attic of their 1 ½ story log building")

You may not be able to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but you can make one out of a moth larvae's saliva.

 

[Lubliner]

I can honestly agree to all the above.
Lubliner.

 

[MRB1863]

I can honestly agree to all the above.
Lubliner.

I agree!

 

[Texas Yank]

Agree.... Wentz farm foundation. Very intense place to be the afternoon of July 2, 1863.