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John Forney’s Undertaking Shop

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  • 15 West Broadway Street
    Union Bridge, MD 21791

This shop prepared and iced the body of Union Major-General John Fulton Reynolds, killed at Gettysburg.

Major-General John Reynolds was killed by a sharpshooter on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. His body was taken to Union Bridge where it was iced down and prepared for shipment to Baltimore, as Union Bridge was at the time the western terminus of the Western Maryland Railway. Union Bridge cabinetmaker John Hollenberger made the coffin.

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