07: Candy’s Brigade Tree

How to Find Witness Tree 07

A little further up Sedgwick Avenue, and along the road, is a tablet for the 1st Division, 6th Corps. About 50 feet behind this tablet, and just at the edge of the wood line, is a tablet to Candy’s Brigade. Witness Tree 07, a pignut hickory, grows just a couple of feet behind and to the left of the tablet. The tree is distinguished by a large, vertical crack or scar on the side facing the tablet.

What this Tree Witnessed

Not much. Candy’s Brigade was called away in afternoon of July 2, 1863, to help repel Longstreet’s assault; Candy did no fighting here, but spent several hours in the woods before returning to Culp’s Hill very early in the morning of July 3 to participate in the fighting there on that day.

Witness Tree 07 Statistics

Tree Species: pignut hickory
Circumference 2024: 66”
Diameter: 21”
Estimated age: 220 years
Estimated diameter in 1863: 5-6”

Then-and-Now Comparisons

Witness Tree 07 was first captured in a William Tipton photograph taken in 1902; seven years later, the tree once again appeared in a photograph published in a 1909 photograph album of Gettysburg.

Other Photographs

Note the large vertical scar or crack which dominates the lower trunk of Witness Tree 07.