GDG- Iverson's Pits Question

[William Nolan]

Hello Jack,
 
I may have seen the area you are referring to.   We saw a very, very slight depression running parallel to the park road about 6-8 feet wide and maybe 80 yards long.   I stepped off the distance from the "Sallie" monument and it was 50 yards from the park road which is within the 100 - 200 foot distance you mentioned.   It was a straight line but it may been just a natural drainage area.  Don't know.   It would be great to have the Lawrence Brothers do a repeat Iverson's Pits tour for those of us who missed the first debacle :)
 
Thanks,
Bill
 
Original Message: 12Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 08:41:16 -0400From: "Jack Kelly" <jmkelly at norwoodlight.com>Subject: Re: GDG- Iverson's Pits QuestionTo: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>Message-ID: <001101c804f1$86f60a40$f3f5d3d8 at kellysnxoj8ku0>Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";	reply-type=original Greetings, Bill, The REAL experts on Iverson's Pits are the brothers Lawrence, as proved in the infamous 1996 (or was it 1997?) Muster "Iverson's Pits Ghost Tour". However, I will attempt to answer your inquiry.  The field in front of the stone wall was, as you know, the scene of Iverson's attack.  The Pits were in the middle of the field, and the interred remains were removed in the late 1800's (1880's IIRC).  The land itself was continuously farmed until fairly recently, so there would be little evidence of the Pits surviving.However, some 20-25 years ago, I was on a November Gettysburg tour with the old Civil War Society and we visited the Pits area.  Most of the grass in the field was brown, but there were some roughly rectangular areas about 100-200 feet in front of the stone wall where the grass was very green.  We opined at the time that this may have been the site of the burial pits (richer soil than in the surrounding area?).  Other than this occasion, I have never seen any surviving evidence of  Iverson's Pits. Regards, Jack Kelly 
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