Anna Garlach (1845-1919) At Gettysburg, Her Family Saved General Schimmelfennig When The Town Was In Confederate Hands- He Was Able To Avoid Capture
Anna and family could leave the cellar only at night, to prepare meals. On July 4, Anna observed a man "walking stiff and cramped" from the alley toward some Union soldiers. It was Brigadier General Schimmelfennig of the 11th Corps. who had hidden from the Confederates for three days. He had been hiding in the Garlach's woodshed in their back yard behind the Garlach's brick house. As recounted in Anna Garlach's memoirs, Catherine Garlach, Anna’s Mother fed Schimmelfennig food under the pretense of feeding pigs. Schimmelfennig briefly hid in a culvert on Baltimore Street. There is a marker outside the Garlach house commemorating this event. After the battle, he rejoined the corps, much to the pleasure of the troops who thought he was dead.
A wounded soldier in the 17th Maine Infantry who stayed at the Garlach House beginning on July 6, 1863 stated that John Henry Garlach, (her father) who was 45 years old at the time of the battle, “fled to the woods for fear of being impressed into service, while the mother and children remained in the cellar of the house for safety from exploding shells and stray bullets.” Actually, Henry Garlach had gone to the top of Cemetery Hill to get a better view of the battle. He found himself cut off from returning to his home during the Union retreat on the afternoon of July 1, 1863.
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