On this week's edition of Monuments Monday, ACHS Historian Tim Smith visits one of the truly rarely visited monuments on the battlefield the death site of Captain Henry Fuller.
For more information about Wible's Woods and the Gettysburg Electric Railway, check out "Devil's Den: A History and Guide" by Tim Smith and Garry Adelman available for purchase here: https://adamscountyhistoricalsocie...
Further Reading & Resources:
Wheatfield Overview and Map: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/ma...
A Bloodstained Artifact at Gettysburg with Garry Adelman & Wayne Motts • A Bloodstained Artifact at Gettysburg
64th New York Monument Dedication Speech: https://archive.org/details/finalrepo...
History of Cattaraugus County with biography of Henry V. Fuller
https://www.google.com/books/edition/... p. 776.
"Caldwell Clears the Wheatfield" by Eric Campbell, Gettysburg Magazine Issue #3 (July 1990)
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