"Peach Orchard" redirects here. For other uses, see Peach Orchard (disambiguation).
The Peach Orchard
Peach Orchard in 2015
Location
Gettysburg Historic (75000155), Adams County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Width
0 km (0 mi)
Area
0 acres (0 ha)
Elevation
624.8 ft (190.4 m)[1]
External images
battle artwork (stereograph)
3rd MI monument
The Peach Orchard[2] is a Gettysburg Battlefield site at the southeast corner of the north-south Emmitsburg Road intersection with the Wheatfield Road. The orchard is demarcated on the east and south by Birney Avenue, which provides access to various memorials regarding the "momentous attacks and counterattacks in…the orchard on the afternoon of July 2, 1863."[3]
^"X_Value=-77.231217&Y_Value=39.819767". Elevation Web Service Query. United States Geological Survey. Archived from the original on 2012-03-15. Retrieved 2011-06-24.
^""The Peach Orchard" (1189440)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-06-09.
^Cope, Emmor (1896), "Peach Orchard – Cast Iron Site ID Tablet", List of Classified Structures: GETT p. 8, National Park Service, structure ID 55, LCS ID 080900, archived from the original on 2015-09-24, retrieved 2011-08-03, 1 of 35 Site ID Tablets by US War Dept. Post-Civil War devel. of battlefield contributing to the commemorative landscape. Momentous attacks and counterattacks took place in and around the orchard on the afternoon of July 2, 1863. ... 2, Painted raised letter and border inscription tablet, 2'9"x1'8". Mounted on fluted post, 2'8" high. Tablet has been fractured and repaired. Located at corner of Wheatfield Road and Emmitsburg Road.
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battle artwork (stereograph)