Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "United States v. Gettysburg Electric Railway Co." in English language version.
Gen. Gobin and W. C. Sheely Esq. representing the Gettysburg Electric Rail Way Company appeared before the Board and asked the right of way over the Association's grounds and along the several Avenues marking the lines of battle. On motion of S. Mc. Swope Esq the request was not granted and the secretary was directed to so notify said Company.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (cited by Unrau p. 64) NOTE: In 1894 during the trolley suit, Swope became a judge.{{cite news}}: External link in |format=land sold on what is now the battlefield has sold within my recollection from $40 to as high as $300 per acre, and that the value incident to improvements brought about by the battle, has no doubt enhanced the value of all the land on the field, and there is no just reason why the owners who suffered should not be paid a full value for its appropriation by the Government.
Theodore McAllister was chosen Prest.; Levi Plank, Vice-prest., and John C. Shriver, Secretary. ... Speeches were made by James Hersh, Harvey D. Bream, John C. Shriver, David Mehring, Robert Bream, Levi Plank and Wm. H. Tipton. ... Messrs. Hersh, Harry D. Bream and Theodore McAllister were chosen the committee. ... N.M. Horner [and] Nicholas Reddingalso attended (1892 Gettysburg Compiler, 1942 Out of the Past articles)
refusal of the Seventy-second Pennsylvania Regiment Association to allow the railway to pass over a small plot of ground owned--but not used--by this association ... 'general operations act' of 1874(published in Gettysburg Times, August 15)
"said act of Congress was simply to indicate by means of tablets the lines of battle and the general positions occupied by the two armies. It was not intended to mark each and every position assumed by each and every part of the two bodies throughout the three days of the battle. Such an attempt would be impracticable, confusing and valueless.(Attorneys Hart, Hebner, & David Wills)
Mr. W. H. Tipton, President of the Town Council,... As for Little Round Top it was bare of timber at the time of the battle and the Association has simply removed the growth of almost 30 years. ... The regiment has declined to sell... The following is the route of the road... The Reading's Round Top Branch, taken with the power of eminent domain ... have to...persuade the authorities of Cumberland township to grant them the Taneytown road.
Work is about to be commenced on Little Round Top. From the [Round Top Park] dance house... Acting Secretary Grant referred this report...to Col. Lieber ... Attention is invited to the act of the Pennsylvania Legislature of two years ago giving the authority to condemn land etc., and also to the general authority by Congress to the War Department to condemn lands for National Cemeteries. ... The trolley people propose to build a station just where Hancock was wounded. ... Seven hundred to a thousand tents will be pitched on East Cemetery Hill
has made embankments and laid its tracks along the Valley of Death and up a part of the slope of Round Top itself. It connects with the Round Top railroad at a point immediately in rear of the warehouse at Round Top station.
owing to sundry misfortunes and the embarrassment brought about by litigations, the company has become insolvent and has a floating indebtedness of upward of $10,000, which it is wholly unable at present to pay.
Common Pleas List....William H. Tipton vs. Daniel E. Sickels. [sic]--Trespass
{{cite news}}: External link in |quote=The land described in the petition is adjacent to the Gettysburg National cemetery. ... This battle-field is of transcendent national interest. The ground is hallowed and made sacred by the blood shed upon it at the most important epoch in the nation's history--in the supreme hour of its life.(dissenting opinion, PA Judge Butler)
George Stonesifer of Littlestown; David Rhoads, Freedom township; Alexander S. Hines, New Oxford; David P. Forney, Conewago township; Thomas G. Neely, Huntingdon township; Peter Kready, Hamilton township, and A. Fleming White, Freedom township.
the Company will very gladly agree to the changes desired, approximately as indicated on the blue prints hereto attached
The impression in the town is that the Secretary of War will be both unwilling and unable to accept this award and that he will decline to take further steps
The Superior Court of Pennsylvania...reversing the decision of the Court of Common Pleas of Adams county.
{{cite news}}: External link in |format=...John C. Group, of Idaville, and David Maring, of Cumberland township, have been appointed a jury of viewers to condemn five tracts of land on the battlefield, ten acres owned by Mrs. Cunningham near Round Top and four tracts belonging to the Land Improvement Co. near Reynolds Grove along Chambersburg. pike.
[rail] trail along Plum Run at Devils Den, runs N through Rose Farm & stops near The Loop. Pair of cut stone block abutments over Rose Run, 5' high, 25' long & approx 10' apart.
The commission held its first meeting at the Eagle Hotel in Gettysburg Wednesday evening
May 3 ... District Attorney presented a petition ... asking for the condemnation
[rail] trail along Plum Run at Devils Den, runs N through Rose Farm & stops near The Loop. Pair of cut stone block abutments over Rose Run, 5' high, 25' long & approx 10' apart.
Amos Leister tracts ['96,'02, 0.14 acres], the F. G. Pfeifer tracts [tbd], the Jacob Benner estate tract [tbd], the Simon J. Godori tract ['94, 0.55], the Jacob Masonheimer tract ['93, 0.59], the Annie E. Beecher tract [tbd], the Rosanna E. Wible tract ['09, 15.48], the James W. Timbers tract [tbd], the S. W. Crawford tracts [tbd], the William H. Tipton tract [tbd], the Calvin P. Krise tract ['04, 3.85], the George Bushman tract [tbd], and the Peter D. Swisher tract ['01, 9.2]