A view looking westward on Pennsylvania Route 234 (East Berlin Road) at Plum Run, near Round Hill.
The quiet evening of June 30, 1863, was the final night on earth for more than a thousand soldiers in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, and a similar number for the I and XI Corps of the Army of the Potomac. Rodes' Division of Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's Second Corps camped just north of Heidlersburg, Pennsylvania. Three miles east of the village was the camp of the division of Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early, consisting of brigades from Georgia, Virginia, Louisiana, and North Carolina, as well as artillery and cavalry.
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