This 1932 Harper’s Ferry was sold via GB to the nicest man any of us will ever meet. From central Maryland, he plans to hang it on his mantle with a period correct bayonet. We met on the Gettysburg battlefield to do the exchange, and I gave him a brief tour of a 2.5-acre property I bought 20 years ago for the National Park Service, now part of the park. It’s where the Ohio 8th was dug in as Pickett’s men crossed the field. A marble obelisk marks the Ohio 8th position, and where a gross 1950s no-tell motel (the Home Sweet Home hotel that charged by the hour) stood with its paved parking lot, the sacred ground is now clear. The archaeology there had never been done until after Home Sweet Home etc was removed. Anyhow, this very nice man Tom held his Harper’s Ferry flintlock rifle tightly while I explained how Pickett’s men crashed into the Union center’s point blank cannonades and grape shot right across the old Home Sweet Home parcel. Tom had never been to Gettysburg before, and as Harper’s Ferry is where one if the fires was lit that started the first Civil War, his new possession took on extra meaning. Mods, please mark this as SOLD, thank you
