Pitzer Woods | |
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Geography | |
Location | Pennsylvania, United States |
Coordinates | 39°48.279′N 77°15.375′W / 39.804650°N 77.256250°W |
Ecology | |
Ecosystem(s) | Gettysburg-Newark Lowlands |
Pitzer Woods is a Gettysburg Battlefield site used for Gettysburg Battlefield camps after the American Civil War such as the 1933–37 Camp Renaissance Civilian Conservation Corps camp.
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Pitzer Woods (NPS.gov) | |
Pitzer Farm (WorldFlicks.org) |
Pitzer Woods was the site of July 1st & 2nd fighting during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. [1] After the CCC camp closed, Fort Indiantown Gap used Pitzer Woods in 1941 and conducted aerial reconnaissance training using the battlefield. [2] During 1943-4, Camp Sharpe used the Pitzer Woods camp ("in a muddy hollow at the bottom of a slanting road") [3] to train soldiers for psychological operations in the European Theater of Operations. In 1946, agricultural laborers from the Bahamas (July 16) [2] and Jamaica were housed on Seminary Ridge. The Pitzer Woods amphitheater was constructed in the 1960s, [4] and the July 3, 1998 James Longstreet memorial was erected at the Pitzer Woods site that had been dedicated in 1941. [5]
Rogers…moved his men back to the shoulder of Big Round Top
Pitzer Woods | |
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Geography | |
Location | Pennsylvania, United States |
Coordinates | 39°48.279′N 77°15.375′W / 39.804650°N 77.256250°W |
Ecology | |
Ecosystem(s) | Gettysburg-Newark Lowlands |
Pitzer Woods is a Gettysburg Battlefield site used for Gettysburg Battlefield camps after the American Civil War such as the 1933–37 Camp Renaissance Civilian Conservation Corps camp.
External images | |
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Pitzer Woods (NPS.gov) | |
Pitzer Farm (WorldFlicks.org) |
Pitzer Woods was the site of July 1st & 2nd fighting during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. [1] After the CCC camp closed, Fort Indiantown Gap used Pitzer Woods in 1941 and conducted aerial reconnaissance training using the battlefield. [2] During 1943-4, Camp Sharpe used the Pitzer Woods camp ("in a muddy hollow at the bottom of a slanting road") [3] to train soldiers for psychological operations in the European Theater of Operations. In 1946, agricultural laborers from the Bahamas (July 16) [2] and Jamaica were housed on Seminary Ridge. The Pitzer Woods amphitheater was constructed in the 1960s, [4] and the July 3, 1998 James Longstreet memorial was erected at the Pitzer Woods site that had been dedicated in 1941. [5]
Rogers…moved his men back to the shoulder of Big Round Top