Gettysburg Campaign

Gettysburg Campaign is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Hampton, Adams County, dedicated 2008.

PA 394 just west of PA 94, Hampton

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Part of General Jubal Early's Confederate Division, marching by Mummasburg and Hunterstown, passed here June 27, 1863, on the way to York. Returning June 30, they passed a little to the north, toward Heidlersburg.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1848 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1857 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1871 · Plate H. South Central Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Route, Gettysburg campaign. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1908 · Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Plate H. South Central Pennsylvania, 1871, covering the location of Gettysburg Campaign, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Plate H. South Central Pennsylvania, 1871, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Gettysburg Campaign

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