Tag: Devil’s Den
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Discovering Plum Run: From Farmland to Battlefield
If you walk through the Plum Run valley today, it feels peaceful. Water moves quietly through grass and stone. Visitors pass between Devil’s Den and the Wheatfield, often without giving the stream a second thought. Yet this modest ribbon of water runs through some of the fiercest ground at Gettysburg. Before the battle, it watered…
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David Forney: The Artist Who Etched History at Elephant Rock
In 1849, a 21-year-old artist named David Forney spent an afternoon in nature south of his hometown (likely around the Rose farm and the Michael Bushman farm). He was apparently sketching and painting, and when he was finished for the day, he carved his first initial, his last name, and the year into the rock…
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The Tragic Legacy of Augustus L. Short’s Family
Corporal Augustus L. Short came from a house divided—his father, Augustus D. Short, was from Bristol County, Massachusetts, while his mother, Jane G. Smith, was from Clarke County, Georgia. The older Augustus and Jane married in 1842 in Clarke County. The oldest boy in their family, James, may have come from a previous marriage: he…