Rainworth Lodge, Gettysburg Pennsylvania

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Rainworth Lodge

1979 Biglerville road, Gettysburg, PA, United States, Pennsylvania

717-357-2551
Vikinginitiative@gmail.com

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During the battle of Gettysburg the property was occupied by Major General Robert Emmett Rodes. It was later used as a field hospital by the confederates. There was also a 17 year old blacksmith that was held prisoner for days and forced to shoe horses for the confederacy. While being held prisoner, the young boy over heard soldiers discussing bringing him along to continue working for the army. Luckily the boy escaped up the hill and later joined the union army. He survived the war and came back to continue working as a blacksmith.
Robert Emmett Rodes born March 29, 1829 K.I.A. September 19, 1864 was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, and the first of Robert E. Lee's divisional commanders not trained at West Point. The Class of 1848 Virginia Military Institute graduate was described by historian Douglas Southall Freeman as “a Norse God in Confederate gray,” and a Wotan still young.” Rodes, unlike Richard Ewell, looked every inch the soldier. He was one of “the most splendid looking officers of the war.” His division led Stonewall Jackson's devastating surprise attack at the Battle of Chancellorsville; Jackson, on his deathbed, recommended that Rodes be promoted to major general. Rodes then served in the corps of Richard S. Ewell at the Battle of Gettysburg and in the Overland Campaign, before that corps was sent to the Shenandoah Valley under Jubal Early, where Rodes was killed at the Third Battle of Winchester.