![]() ![]() Ever since it has been known simply as The Wheatfield. Over six thousand men were killed or wounded there. It also included a twenty acre field where over 20,000 men engaged in brutal and often hand-to-hand combat. The farm included the Stony Hill and the Rose Woods. The Rose Farm was at the center of some of the fiercest fighting of the war on the second day of the battle. While intense fighting was swirling around his home, Charles and his regiment were a few miles to the south escorting supplies from Harpers Ferry to Washington. The oldest son, Charles Francis Ogden, joined the 138th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment. A tenant farmer, Francis Ogden, his wife, and four sons also lived on the Rose farm, probably in the large farmhouse. Also living there was an older women working as a “domestic.” a young woman who was “help,” a middle-aged farmhand and 14 year old hired boy. ![]() Instead George’s brother John lived there with his wife Elizabeth, and seven children. Evidence suggests that George did not live on the farm at the time of the battle, and only moved in sometime in 1868. He purchased the farm from Jacob Benner in 1858 for a little over $8,000. George Rose was a butcher from Germantown, Pennsylvania. The farmhouse dates back to 1811 and was completed to its present form in 1824. The farm of George and Dorothy Rose is about two miles south of Gettysburg on the eastern side of Emmitsburg Road. ![]()
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