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  • Gettysburg National Military Park Adopt-A-Position Program
    Twice a year - once in the spring and again in the fall - members and friends of the Chapman Society travel to Gettysburg to care for the sites we have adopted there.
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Since the spring of 2014 the Chapman Society has participated in the "Adopt-A-Position" program sponsored by the Gettysburg National Military Park. We presently are responsible for maintaining twenty-one sites on the battlefield. We voted to adopt twelve sites when another organization determined that they were no longer able to continue participating in the program and released the locations. We took on another nine in the spring of 2017.

A photo of each of the sites we have adopted and a little about each of them appears below. Click on the image for a larger view.

Ramseur's Brigade Marker

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Erected 1910-1911, replacing earlier 1905 tablet. Ewell’s Corps, Rodes Division 2nd, 4th, 14th, 30th NC Regiments.

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Iverson's Brigade Marker

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Erected 1910-1911, replacing earlier tablet erected 1901 -1902.

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Iverson's Brigade Marker

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Hill’s Corps, Heth’s Division. 11th, 26th, 47th, 52nd NC Regiments.

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Carter's Battalion Marker

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Carter's, Fry's, Pace's and Reese's Batteries -- Erected 1910-1911, replacing earlier 1906 tablet . Ewell’s Corp, Rodes’ Division. Carter’s, Fry’s, Page’s, and Reese’s Batteries.

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Carter's Battalion Marker

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Four 10-pounder Parrotts, six 3-inch rifles, and six Napoleons. Expended 1898 rounds.

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Scales' Brigade Marker

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Erected 1910-1911, replacing earlier tablet erected 1901 -1902. Hill’s Corps, Pender’s Division. 13th, 16th, 22nd, 38th NC Regiments. …

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Brockenbrough's Brigade Marker

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West Confederate Avenue - Erected 1910-1911, replacing earler tablet from 1901-1902. Hill's Corps, Heth's Division. 40th, 47th, 55th Regiments and 22nd Battalion Virgiia infantry. Marker indicates the position of the brigade on July 3 before advancing as part of Longstreet's assault.

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11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment

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Assigned to guard the division trains on July 1. Rejoined the brigade the evening of July 2. Bronze statue of Color Sgt. William O'Brien.

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11th Mississippi Advance Marker

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“The regiment was here 'subjected to a most galling fire of musketry and artillery that so reduced the already thinned ranks . . .

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11th Mississippi Advance Marker

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. . . that any further effort to carry the position was hopeless, and there was nothing left but to retire." - Report of Brig. Gen. Joseph R. Davis

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Heth's Division

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West Confederate Avenue - Erected 1909. Part of A. P. Hill's Corps, division was comprised of Pettigrew's, Brockenbrough's, Archer's and Davis' brigades. The marker indicates the location of the division the afternoon of July 3 just prior to advancing as part of Longstreet's Assault.

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Davis' Brigade Marker

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Reynold's Avenue North - Erected 1910-1911, replacing earler tablet from 1901-1902. - Hill's Corps, Heth's Division. 2nd, 11th, and 42nd Mississippi and 55th North Carolina regiments. Marker located near the railroad cut where a large portion of the brigade was captured on July 1. (The 11th Mississippi was not present on the field on July 1.)

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Davis' Brigade Marker

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West Confederate Avenue - Erected 1910-1911, replacing earlier tablet erected 1901 -1902. Hill’s Corps, Heth’s Division. 55th NC, 2nd, 11th, 42nd Mississippi Regiments. Position on July 3 before advancing as part of Longstreet’s assault …

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A. P. Hill Headquarters Marker

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Farmhouse occupied as Hill’s HQ belonged to E. Pitzer, 540 yards west of the marker. Marker on left of the line held by Hill’s Corp on July 2 & 3.

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Pettigrew's Brigade Marker

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Erected 1910-1911, replacing earlier tablet erected 1901 -1902. Hill’s Corps, Heth’s Division 11th, 26th, 47th, 52nd NC Regiments.

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Archer's Brigade Marker

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West Confederate Avenue - Erected 1910-1911, replacing earler tablet from 1901-1902. Hill's Corps, Heth's Division. The brigade was made up of the 5th battalion and 13th Alabama, and the 1st, 7th, and 14th Tennessee. Of the 1,048 men present, 160 were killed or wounded and 517 were missing.

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Marye's Battery - Pegram's Battalion

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West Confederate Avenue - Erected 1901-1902, the marker shows the position of the battery on July 2, 3 and 4. The battery fired the first cannon shot of the battle on the morning of July 1 from a point along the Chambersburg Pike on the ridge west of Herr's Tavern.

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Ross's Battery - Lane's Battalion

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West Confederate Avenue - Erected 1901-1902. Tablet shows location of the battery July 2, 3 and 4, except for the unit's howitzer, which was on detached assignment with Patterson's battery, also of Lane's Battalion.

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Lane's Battalion Marker

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West Confederate Avenue - Patterson's, Wingfield's and Ross's batteries - Erected 1910-1911, replacing earler tablet from 1901-1902.

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Wingfield's Battery - Lane's Battalion

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West Confederate Avenue - Erected 1901-1902. Indicates the position held by the battery July 2, 3 and 4.

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Tennessee Monument

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After the Mississippi Monument was dedicated in 1973, Tennessee was the only Confederate state without a monument on the battlefield to her soldiers.

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Tennessee Monument

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The $25,000 cost was raised entirely through private donations. Dedicated during elaborate ceremonies in driving rain on July 3, 1982. Commemorates Tennessee’s three infantry regiments that served in Archer's Brigade at Gettysburg.

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Patterson's Battery - Lane's Battalion

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West Confederate Avenue - Erected 1901-1902. Marker indicates position of the battery on July 2 while it (along with the howitzer from Ross' battery) was detached from the rest of the battalion and engaged in the attack on the Peach Orchard.

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Mississippi Monument

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Located at position of Barksdale’s Brigade prior to attack on Union line at the Peach Orchard on July 2. Fourteen Mississippi units engaged at Gettysburg. …

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Georgia Monument

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The monument specifically honors the 3,000 Georgia troops who fell at Gettysburg. Located on Warfield Ridge where Semmes’ Brigade launched attack on July 2.

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Georgia Monument Inscription

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We sleep here in obedience; When duty called, we came; When country called, we died

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