Title
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-27-2016
Department 1
Civil War Era Studies
Abstract
The grand national holiday was a quiet one in Adams County in 1866. Gettysburg was a ghost town. No fireworks. No parades. No mass celebrations. In the woods around the county, small knots of citizens gathered for picnics. Escaping the hot, dusty streets of the towns was obviously a boon for anyone who, as the Adams Sentinel put it, “embraced the opportunity of rusticating for the day.” [excerpt]
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Recommended Citation
Rudy, John M. "Independence Day 1866." Gettysburg Times (June 27, 2016).
Comments
This article appeared in the Gettysburg Times as part of the Adams County Historical Society's "Historically Speaking" column, June 27, 2016.