Devil's Den
Devil's Den is a maze of massive boulders at Gettysburg National Military Park, where on July 2, 1863, roughly 3,100 Confederates under John Bell Hood overwhelmed some 2,400 Union defenders in one of the battle's most savage infantry fights, leaving over 1,800 casualties among the rocks. Confederate marksmen later sheltered between the stones to fire on Little Round Top, and one famous "sharpshooter" photograph was staged when a photographer dragged a dead soldier into the crevices to pose him.
Visitors now report phantom drum rolls and gunshots at dusk, cameras that drain or fail, and an apparition at dawn — a ragged, congenial barefoot Texan who tells lost visitors how to get the best photo, then vanishes, never appearing in the frame. The Park Service calls it folklore.
📍 Devil's Den, Sickles Avenue / Crawford Avenue, Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA 17325, Gettysburg, PA · Get directions