Tag: Union Soldiers
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Alexander Schimmelfennig, the Garlachs, and a Backyard Refuge
The story of General Alexander Schimmelfennig is one of the oddities of the Battle of Gettysburg. On the evening of July 1, 1863, after the first day’s fighting rolled up the Union line north of town, the Union general slipped into the tight maze of alleys and back lots along Baltimore Street—now behind Confederate lines—and…