Daniel Lady Farm
Daniel Lady bought this stone farmhouse and 146-acre property in 1840, and in July 1863 it was swept into the Battle of Gettysburg, serving first as a Confederate staging area and headquarters and then as a field hospital during the fighting for Culp's Hill. Surgeons worked through the house and barn, treating more than 87 wounded officers in the residence and the rank-and-file in the stable below, and 37 Confederate dead were buried on the land. Bloodstains still darken the parlor floor, confirmed in a 2010 forensic analysis as human blood, and recovering soldiers' carved initials remain pressed into the barn wood. Visitors and paranormal investigators have long reported soldier apparitions drifting across the fields, disembodied Southern-accented voices, and unexplained activity in the upstairs bedroom where the Lady family is said to have found a dead Confederate soldier upon returning home. Preserved since 1999 by the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association, the farm is widely counted among the most haunted places in Gettysburg.
📍 1008 Hanover Rd, Gettysburg, PA 17325, Gettysburg, PA · Get directions