Finding USA Individual Statues at Gettysburg

20 Bronze Statues

Citizens

Three statues depict Gettysburg civilians, two of whom are women:

1. Sixty-nine year old John L. Burns, who joined the fight on McPherson’s Ridge on July 1, 1863.
2. Twenty-year-old Mary Virginia “Jennie” Wade who was killed while baking bread for Union soldiers on July 2, 1863.
3. Thirty-year-old Elizabeth Masser Thorn, caretaker of Evergreen Cemetery, who helped to bury the Union dead.

Soldiers

With the exception of Albert H. Woolson, who is honored as the last surviving (and honorably discharged) Union Civil War Veteran, all other statues honor officers of the Army of the Potomac who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg. Notably, though, more generals fought at Gettysburg than have bronze statues.

Ordered by Bicycling Convenience

I have listed Gettysburg’s statues roughly in the order that a bicyclist might want to visit them. The statues are sequenced in a way that would make sense to someone who is planning a bicycle route. Finding USA individual statues at Gettysburg is not hard, but planning is required if you want to visit all of them, or a particular subset of bronze statues.

Can you find bronze statues (above) at Gettysburg using the following maps? Give it a try!

Finding USA Individual Statues at Gettysburg

For each statue’s photograph, find its location on the map. (Or you could do it the other way around: For each map location, find the associated statue photograph.) The following sections provide the maps and photographs.

Maps

Gettysburg North of Town

For each map provided on this page, hover over any pin with your mouse, or tap the pin on a mobile device, to read what the pin marks. The abbreviations are derived from the monument names shown in the table above.

Gettysburg South of Town

Photos

Route Planning

Finally, it’s time to plan a bicycle route that passes each bronze statue. You have everything that you need!

It is certainly possible to design a circular bicycle route that passes each of the twenty bronze statues. However, it is more likely that you will want to plan smaller circuits, or to include these visits in a more broadly themed route.

With that in mind, you might want to consider incorporating the following route “segments” (non-circular routes) into your route planning:

The first route segment would focus on battlefield events of July 1, 1863 (and include the six statues that are north of town). If you visit numbers [1-6], above, in that order, you will be able to bicycle with the flow of traffic.

The second route segment could begin on South Confederate Avenue at the William W. Wells Statue [7] and head north along Cemetery Ridge to the Alexander Hays Statue [15] in Ziegler’s Grove, with a possible westward detour to visit the A. A. Humphreys Statue [10] on Emmitsburg Road. This segment covers numbers [7-15].

The third route segment could begin in Spangler’s Spring, heading north on Slocum Avenue to visit the John W. Geary Statue [16] and the remaining statues, [17-20], in order.