GDG- East Cemetery Hill

[Gettysburg Engineering]

The wall where the 107 OH and part of the 25 OH were behind started on
Wainwright Ave near the 25-75 OH monument and went toward the Holiday Inn.
It was on the north side (town side) of the present day, large municipal
water tank.  If you park behind the Holiday Inn and follow the chain link
fence, which is around the municipal property, you will come to the flank
markers.  They are at the edge of someone's yard.  The stone fence has been
destroyed.  Many people do not realize the Ohio boys were that close to town
but believe they were behind the stone fence on East Cemetery Hill, which
borders the tour center parking lot.  How many of you have seen these flank
markers?

Regards

Dean Shultz


> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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> I believe the remains of the wall are where the 25/75th Ohio monument is
> located. Brickyard Lane actually lies a little further east than present
> Wainwright Ave . One source I read suggests that part of the retaining
wall
> for the present day Wainwright Ave  was built from the wall where the 17th
> Conn. was located, see "The Hour Was One of Horror" by Jon M. Archer.
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> Chuck Schmitz
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