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Graffiti
on the Court House Walls |
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Some
of the Soldiers Who
Wrote Their Names |
Graffiti is
framed by windows in the walls around the room.
Portrait of Capt. Robert Scofield is above the list of Gettysburg
officers.
The courthouse served both sides as a hospital and
prison during the Civil War. As many as 500 prisoners were crammed into the 2nd floor
where most of the graffiti has been discovered.
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1st
Lieutenant John E. Wills
Company G, 51st Virginia Infantry Regiment
Captured 3rd Battle of Winchester, September 19
1864
Private David A. Powell
54th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Captured at Kernstown, July 24 1864
Private John F. Richards
Company C, 16th regiment, Massachusetts Infantry
Captured in Loudoun County, Virginia, July 20, 1863
Federal Officers Captured After Gettysburg, 1863
Names as they appear on the wall:
Maj Pope 8th New York Cav Captured near Funkstown July
10
Maj Farnsworth 1st Connecticut Cav
Captured near Halltown July 14
Capt Scofield 1st Vermont Captured near Hagerstown
July 12
Lt Norcross 2nd Mass Captured Ashby Gap July 12
Private
William H. Selah
Aug., 1861-June, 1863, 3rd Reg’t Virginia Infantry
July-Dec. 1863, Co. 1, 3rd Reg’t, 3rd Virginia
Mounted Infantry
Jan.-Aug., 1864, Co. 1, 6th Reg’t West Virginia Cavalry
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Corporal Albert B. Robinson
Company 1, 2nd Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry
Wounded & captured, Loudoun Co., VA July 20, 1863
Corporal William H. Evans
Company D, 1st Regiment; Maryland Volunteer Infantry
(Union);
Captured Battle of Front Royal, May 23, 1862 |
 On the south wall is a curse to Confederate President
Jefferson Davis.
You have to see it to understand the strong sentiments
expressed by the Union soldier who scratched it onto the wall.
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