Sachs Covered Bridge
Sachs Covered Bridge is a 100-foot Town-lattice covered bridge built around 1852, spanning Marsh Creek on the edge of the Gettysburg battlefield. In July 1863 it carried Union corps toward the fighting and, days later, much of Lee's defeated army back south in retreat.
Local legend holds that three soldiers, called deserters or spies, were hanged from its beams, though no contemporary record exists and the tale surfaces only from the 1980s onward. Visitors and ghost hunters report cigar or pipe smoke where none burns, faint distant cannon fire, and the sudden tap of a hand when no one is near, some claiming photographs reveal figures that were never there.
Whether echo of the retreat or trick of an old battlefield's quiet, the bridge keeps its name as one of Gettysburg's most haunted spots.
📍 Waterworks Road, between Cumberland and Freedom Townships, Adams County, near Gettysburg, PA, Gettysburg, PA · Get directions