This interactive Gettysburg map (below) marks the beginning of a larger project to chart the civilian landscape of Gettysburg in new ways. What you see here is Layer One, focused on Confederate burials drawn from Greg Coco’s Gettysburg’s Confederate Burials and similar sources like Find-a-Grave (these are denoted with the carrot shapes). In addition, you will find civilian homes, churches, and businesses with short explanations (these are the blue circles). Each carrot marker represents a farm or landmark where burials were recorded in the days and weeks following the battle. Clicking a location opens a list of the men buried there, with details about their regiments, dates of death, and links to their Find-a-Grave entries when available. The side panel also gathers together burials that could not yet be placed on the ground and those soldiers who were wounded at Gettysburg but later died in hospitals far from the field.

The blue dots open to short explanatory windows and, where applicable, links where you can read more about the people and events associated with that site.

This is only the first layer. In time, additional layers will allow you to toggle between different views of the civilian experience—farms and families, businesses, post-battle hospitals, and even the shifting lines of commemoration. Each will be connected so that the story of Gettysburg’s people can be explored spatially as well as through narrative. The farms plotted so far are only a start: as research continues, more sites will be added and existing points refined for greater accuracy.

The goal is not just to mark dots on a map, but to help you move through Gettysburg as residents experienced it—on farms clustered along Rock Creek, in churches turned into hospitals, or at landmarks like the Black Horse Tavern. Use this map to explore where soldiers were first laid to rest, then return later as new layers are added to see how those same landscapes tied into family histories, community life, and the long memory of the battle.