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Coordinates: 39°47′43″N 77°14′38″W / 39.7952°N 77.2439°W / 39.7952; -77.2439
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Rose Woods
(Wible's Woods during the commemorative era)
Soldier killed by artillery fire on the southwestern edge of[verification needed] the Rose Woods, near the Wheatfield.[1][2]
Geography
LocationGettysburg National Military Park, Adams County, Pennsylvania
Coordinates39°47′43″N 77°14′38″W / 39.7952°N 77.2439°W / 39.7952; -77.2439

Rose Woods is a Gettysburg Battlefield forested area that is an American Civil War site of the battle's Hood's Assault, McLaws' Assault, and McCandless' Advance. "Scene of the first line of Union defenses"[3] on the Battle of Gettysburg, Second Day; the 1st Texas Infantry and 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiments attacked Ward's 2nd Brigade line in the woods. The last combat on the Battle of Gettysburg, Third Day, was "in the early evening. Colonel William McCandless's brigade of Pennsylvania Reserves advanced across the Wheatfield into Rose's Woods where they managed to inflict heavy losses on the 15th Georgia" which had failed to retreat to Warfield Ridge after Longstreet's Assault.[4] Two days later Timothy H. O'Sullivan photographed corpses moved for burial to the edge of Rose Woods[5] and which were subsequently reinterred in cemeteries.

De Trobriand Avenue and other Military Park roads provide access to the woods' battlefield monuments, and the woods' railbed for the 1894-1916 Gettysburg Electric Railway is a historic district contributing structure that is now a rail trail. Monuments in the woods include the 1890 Sixty-fourth New York Regiment Monument, and Wheat-field Park[6] in "Wible's Grove" was a commemorative era trolley park.[7] The trolley's overhead power line broke at Wible's Woods in 1900,[8] and the woods had the postbellum "William Wible's Quarry"[9] for Gettysburg Granite (cf. Rosensteel's Quarry north of the Round Top Museum).[10] In 2004, the archeological remains of the former trolley bridge in Rose Woods were named a historic district contributing structure.[11]

  • [Top] Confederate Dead at the Rose Farm near the Rose Woods[12][Bottom]Confederate Dead at the Rose Woods[13]
    [Top] Confederate Dead at the Rose Farm near the Rose Woods[12][Bottom]Confederate Dead at the Rose Woods[13]
  • Confederate Dead at the Rose Woods[14]
    Confederate Dead at the Rose Woods[14]
  • Confederate Dead at the Rose Woods somestimes misidentied as dead of the 1st Minnesota Regiment Union army[15]
    Confederate Dead at the Rose Woods somestimes misidentied as dead of the 1st Minnesota Regiment Union army[15]
  • [Top]Dead horse at Trostle Farm[16][Bottom]Confederate Dead at the Rose Woods[17]
    [Top]Dead horse at Trostle Farm[16][Bottom]Confederate Dead at the Rose Woods[17]
  • Confederate Dead at the Rose Woods[18]
    Confederate Dead at the Rose Woods[18]
  • Confederate Dead at the Rose Woods[19]
    Confederate Dead at the Rose Woods[19]

References

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  1. ^ Frassanito's Early Photography at Gettysburg, p. 336 identifies the photograph as "Dead Confederate soldier in the field at the southwestern edge of the Rose Woods." (The Library of Congress identifies the photo site as The Wheatfield).[1]
  2. ^ Site first Identified by Gettysburg historian W. Frassanito "Gettysburg A Journey in Time" 1975
  3. ^ Davis, W. G. "About what you are looking at…" (image description). Behind The Stonewall. JaTruck.com. Retrieved 2012-05-06.
  4. ^ "National Park Service: Gettysburg Seminar Papers — The Third Day: The Fate Of A Nation, July 3, 1863". Archived from the original on 2013-12-15.
  5. ^ "[Gettysburg, Pa. Confederate dead gathered for burial at the southwestern edge of the Rose woods, July 5, 1863]". Library of Congress. 1863.
  6. ^ "Hoffer Sells Out" (Google News Archive). The Star and Sentinel. January 22, 1895. Retrieved 2011-02-24. Agreements with William Wible for the use of the Wheat-field Park, containing 25 acres, at the rate of $5 per day for each excursion to said park by the said Railway Company.
  7. ^ 1893: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sqslAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7010,628890&dq=wible's-woods&hl=en
    1895: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1P0yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jAAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1457%2C6999057
    1903: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=opQzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HOkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4724,2881399&dq=wible's+grove&hl=en
  8. ^ "The Pittsburgh Press - Google News Archive Search".
  9. ^ "Licensed Battlefield Guide Rich Kohr: William Wible's Gettysburg Quarry". 21 January 2009.
  10. ^ "Gettysburg Times - Google News Archive Search".
  11. ^ "Electric Trolley Bed". Retrieved 2011-03-02. [rail] trail along Plum Run at Devil's Den, runs N through Rose Farm & stops near The Loop. … Pair of cut stone block abutments over Rose Run, 5' high, 25' long & approx 10' apart.
  12. ^ This site was identified by 2008. Letter from John Hesier, NPS Historian Gettysburg
  13. ^ Site Identified by Gettysburg historian W. Frassanito "Gettysburg A Journey in Time" 1975
  14. ^ Site Identified by Gettysburg historian W. Frassanito "Gettysburg A Journey in Time" 1975
  15. ^ Site Identified by Gettysburg historian W. Frassanito "Gettysburg A Journey in Time" 1975
  16. ^ Letter from John Hesier, NPS Historian Gettysburg
  17. ^ Site Identified by Gettysburg historian W. Frassanito "Gettysburg A Journey in Time" 1975
  18. ^ Site Identified by Gettysburg historian W. Frassanito "Gettysburg A Journey in Time" 1975
  19. ^ Site Identified by Gettysburg historian W. Frassanito "Gettysburg A Journey in Time" 1975
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