Sep 28, 2026 · 53 min · 11 segments
Shanna continues her campaign against the tour guides of Gettysburg by giving the true story of the Welty House and the hauntings that are said to linger on the grounds * * * Hosted on Acast. See…
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Elizabeth Thorne, caretaker at Evergreen Cemetery, six months pregnant during the Battle of Gettysburg.
the battle was on wednesday the first of july and it was on the friday before june twenty sixth that i first saw the rebels as the rebels came to gettysburg we were all scared and wished for them to go six of them came up the baltimore pike before they came into the cemetery they fired off their revolvers to scare the people They chased the people out and the men ran and jumped over the fences.
I was a piece away from the house when they rode into the cemetery.
I was scared, as I was afraid they had fired after my mother.
I fainted from fright, but finally reached the house.
They said we should not be afraid of them.
They were not going to hurt us like the Yankees did their ladies.
They rode around the house on the pavement to the window and asked for bread and butter and buttermilk.
My mother went out and got them all that she had for them.
We were trying to feed them all we could.
I had baked in the morning and had the bread in the oven.
They were hungry and smelled the bread.
I took a butcher knife and stood before the oven and cut this hot bread for them as fast as I could.
When I had six loaves cut up, I said I would have to keep one loaf for my family, but as they still begged for more, I cut up every loaf for them.
We had all the glasses and tins and cups and tubs and everything outside filled with water.
All the time our little boys were pumping and carrying water to fill the tubs.
They handed water to the soldiers and worked and helped this way until their poor little hands were blistered and their bread I'd given away on Friday.
near midnight on july second when everything was quiet my father and i undertook to walk home to the cemetery house the guard was not going to let us through but as they listened to what i had to say that we wanted to look after our things in the cemetery house they let us pass we had fat hogs and we wanted to look after them when we got to the stable we could hear the wounded men holler and go on lying around the house and the cellar too we could not get near the house for wounded and dead they had been brought there from the first day's fight my father got a man to take us into the cellar where six wounded men were and they had our bedclothes all around we went to the cellar thinking we could get a pillow and a quilt but all i could find was my mother's shawl and no pillow "'The poor wounded men were crying and going on "'so that we could not and did not want anything then.
"'They called their wives and children to come and wet their tongues.
"'Then we went down the pike again.
"'We had no trouble with the guards going back.
You're
ready? I'm glad you are.
I'm ready.
Elizabeth Thorne, caretaker at Evergreen Cemetery, six months pregnant during the Battle of Gettysburg.
the battle was on wednesday the first of july and it was on the friday before june twenty sixth that i first saw the rebels as the rebels came to gettysburg we were all scared and wished for them to go six of them came up the baltimore pike before they came into the cemetery they fired off their revolvers to scare the people They chased the people out and the men ran and jumped over the fences.
I was a piece away from the house when they rode into the cemetery.
I was scared, as I was afraid they had fired after my mother.
I fainted from fright, but finally reached the house.
They said we should not be afraid of them.
They were not going to hurt us like the Yankees did their ladies.
They rode around the house on the pavement to the window and asked for bread and butter and buttermilk.
My mother went out and got them all that she had for them.
We were trying to feed them all we could.
I had baked in the morning and had the bread in the oven.
They were hungry and smelled the bread.
I took a butcher knife and stood before the oven and cut this hot bread for them as fast as I could.
When I had six loaves cut up, I said I would have to keep one loaf for my family, but as they still begged for more, I cut up every loaf for them.
We had all the glasses and tins and cups and tubs and everything outside filled with water.
All the time our little boys were pumping and carrying water to fill the tubs.
They handed water to the soldiers and worked and helped this way until their poor little hands were blistered and their bread I'd given away on Friday.
near midnight on july second when everything was quiet my father and i undertook to walk home to the cemetery house the guard was not going to let us through but as they listened to what i had to say that we wanted to look after our things in the cemetery house they let us pass we had fat hogs and we wanted to look after them when we got to the stable we could hear the wounded men holler and go on lying around the house and the cellar too we could not get near the house for wounded and dead they had been brought there from the first day's fight my father got a man to take us into the cellar where six wounded men were and they had our bedclothes all around we went to the cellar thinking we could get a pillow and a quilt but all i could find was my mother's shawl and no pillow "'The poor wounded men were crying and going on "'so that we could not and did not want anything then.
"'They called their wives and children to come and wet their tongues.
"'Then we went down the pike again.
"'We had no trouble with the guards going back.
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