The Battle of Gettysburg LbNA #72801

Start your journey at the Gettysburg Visitor Center and obtain a map of the battlefield. This series of boxes will follow the Self-Guiding Auto Tour. Each of the 16 stops on the tour has a letterbox to find, each in a camo pouch. You will find the logbook at the last box, near the National Cemetery. Please use extreme stealth for each of these boxes, as this area is crawling with tourists nearly year-round. Please leave a comment letting us know how we did and how the boxes are faring.

1. McPherson Ridge: The Battle of Gettysburg began near this barn on July 1, 1863. Look for the starred sign designating the stopping point. As you approach, look left for the Maj. Gen. John F. Reynolds monument. To the right is a large fallen tree. Five steps right of this is a broken stump. Pouch is under the stump.
2. Eternal Light Peace Memorial: This monument signifies “Peace Eternal in a Nation United” After you pass the memorial, look left down towards four cannons. About 50ft down the hill, see a large tree against the fence. On the downhill side of this tree is a small cavity, covered by a rock. Under this rock is the pouch.
3. Oak Ridge: This is where the Union held until it fell back to Cemetery Hill. Pass the observation tower and pull off just past the monument topped with an eagle. Look downhill to the beautiful large white oaks. Walk to the largest one, about 50ft down. Continue on to next sizeable tree. Pouch is in cavity near bottom, under rocks. There are some very deep cavities that look like animal burrows. Find the shallow one covered with rocks.
4. North Carolina Memorial: On the second day of the battle this is where the Confederacy positioned itself. The lines of both armies at this point resembled the famous ‘parallel fishhooks.’ The stamp you’ll find here is a portrayal of these fishhooks. Inside the pouch is also a labeled picture to give you an idea of the positions held by the two armies. To find it, pull off at the first available spot for viewing the memorial. Find the ‘Army of Northern Virginia’ sign near the stone wall. Scale the wall near this point and stand directly behind where the sign is, facing the wall. See that large flat rock near the top of the wall? The pouch is under this rock.
5. Virginia Memorial: The site of ‘Pickett’s Charge.’ Park in the last spot for viewing the memorial. Cross the road. Look about 60ft off the road to a big old stump with a fallen tree beyond it. Follow the left portion of this fallen tree to its end. Ten feet further is a large tree. Look behind this tree under stones to find the pouch.
6. Pitzer Woods: Confederate sharpshooters took up position here. Pass the stop-off. Before intersection, see ‘Confederate Ave’ sign. Face this sign and head into woods. 22 steps in (through underbrush) is a large white oak. Between this tree and its small neighbor, under a rock, is the pouch.
7. Warfield Ridge: The site of Longstreet’s assault, as well as a Confederate encampment. Find ‘A Memorial to the Soldiers and Sailors of the Confederacy.’ Follow trees back to the stonewall. See the medium tree just on the other side of the wall with a large burl at the bottom? Step over the wall at this point and find the pouch just to the right of the tree, between stones near the bottom of the wall.
8. Little Round Top: The statue here of General Warren is one of the most well-known in the park. Park at intersection of Wright Ave and Sykes Ave and head up paved path to the left. See monument to the Twentieth Maine on your way. When the paved path forks, go right and continue to follow path a short way as it takes you downhill and to the right. See a pointy stump on the right not far off the path? Look inside on the left for SPOR. Pouch is beneath this. Keep following this path around to get back to your vehicle.
9. The Wheatfield: Originally owned by the Rose family and was also known a as Harvest of Death. The battle changed hands here six times in two hours and it is 19 acres here. Pull up to lone cedar on right. On the left, spot the small stone fence. Walk to that and with your back lined up with the cedar, find the cluster of rocks in front of the wall. On right of those rocks is a large flat rock. To the right of that is what looks like an old hitching post. There is then a small cluster of rocks that form a triangle hole to the right of the hitching post. In the triangle, under debris is your prize.
10. The Peach Orchard: This was originally owned by Sherfly family. The Union line extended from here to Devil’s Den. Park with the monument on your left with the broken fence beyond it with a lone tree. Behind it where the fence meets on right side under middle rail under two pieces of wood is prize.
11. Plum Run: Also know as the Bloody Run, and the Plum in the Valley of Death. Drive over bridge and park on right. Locate the lone twin on the right side. Pouch is between bushes at base of this tree, in crevice.
12. Pennsylvania Memorial: The largest monument on the Battlefield. spy a cedar with a rock before the Memorial. Behind it is a smaller tree in front of a fence. And right behind that tree in crevice in wall is your next prize covered in leaves and bark.
13. Spangler’s Spring: This memorial is a granite set over iron. This Park with spring on left and spot the cluster of large rocks behind it. See the large boulder in front and the large rock to the left of that. Behind that is another large rock. Go to that and behind this are two large boulders with a boulder crevice. What you seek is in here, wedged between the middle rock and large rock on right.
14. East Cemetery Hill: a Union Victory here. Union soldiers repelled a Confederat assault at crest of hill. Locate the large sprawling tree on left and park. To the left of that is a monument on top of hill. Go to that tree and notice it is growing out of a large rock. In the front of it is a large crevice and spot on the left side of the tree is a smaller hole. Look in there to find your prize.
15. High Water Mark: 12,000 man for Pickett’s Charge. Against federal center. Pull next to ‘Army of Potomac’ monument on left. Locate the fence on the right and notice the lone tree in a V of the fence. Walk there and to the right V next to that spot three rocks. Prize is on right rock and behind.
16. Soldiers National Cemetery: This was the setting for Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Park in lot at Soldier’s National Cemetery. Locate the Deleware Memorial our front and notice a tree that branches out to three on far left of the monument. Your last prize to this series is behind this tree and under rocks.

We hope you have as much fun finding these boxes as we did hiding them. And don’t forget to use extreme stealth.