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The First Shot Marker and 8th Illinois Cavalry Monument

By Craig Swain, November 1, 2008

Left Side

SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER

1 ► Pennsylvania, Adams County, Gettysburg, Cumberland Township — First Shot - Gettysburg — July 1st. 1863 —

On Chambersburg Pike (U.S. 30) at Knoxlyn Road, on the right when traveling west on Chambersburg Pike.

2 ► Pennsylvania, Adams County, Gettysburg, Cumberland Township — 8th Illinois Cavalry — 1st Brigade, 1st Division — Cavalry Corps —

On Reynolds Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

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