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Published: 2015-07-09 05:35:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 481; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 0
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Gettysburg, PennsylvaniaThe area surrounding McPherson's Farm was the scene of intense fighting on July 1st, 1863, as Confederate General Henry Heth’s Division advanced towards Gettysburg against defending Union cavalry under General John Buford. Union reinforcements from General John Reynolds’ First Corps arrived and counterattacked, and fighting swirled through McPherson’s pasturelands and two fields planted in corn and wheat, as well as through neighbor John Herbst’s woods. McPherson’s barn became a place of refuge for the wounded, and continued as a hospital long after the battle ended. - Credit for the history and more info can be found here: gettysburg.stonesentinels.com/…
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No problem, and your always welcome my friend
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This is a lovely photo and the location looks so idyllic and beautiful. It was really interesting to read such an unexpected story about the place!
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Thank you. Yes, the whole area looks so peaceful now and it is so hard to believe what once happened there.
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The oldest part of our house was built at just this time, hard to imagine so much turmoil in such a peaceful place.
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Must be cool to live in a house so old! 
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Not much of the original part is still evident as it has all been knocked about and extended over the years, it was originally an estate cottage lived in by the foremans family for a little brine extraction works which was dried for salt. Yes, war is such a waste but we never seem to learn any better
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It's still interesting that part of your house has that much history. 
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