History & local legend
Pickett’s Charge field at Gettysburg is the setting of a story Loy Mershimer recorded secondhand in August 2005. A mother and daughter were walking across the field when the girl ran ahead and planted a small Confederate battle flag she had bought in a gift shop.
As her mother bent to retrieve it, movement caught her eye. Looking into the bright sunlight, she believed she could see successive ranks of shadowy soldiers behind the flag.
