{{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox river | name = Pitzer Run | name_native = | name_native_lang = | name_other = | name_etymology = <!---------------------- IMAGE & MAP --> | image = | image_caption = | map = | map_size = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = | pushpin_map_size = | pushpin_map_caption= <!---------------------- LOCATION --> | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = United States | subdivision_type2 = State | subdivision_name2 = Pennsylvania | subdivision_type3 = Region | subdivision_name3 = Adams County | subdivision_type4 = | subdivision_name4 = | subdivision_type5 = Township | subdivision_name5 = Cumberland <!---------------------- PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS --> | length = | width_min = | width_avg = | width_max = | depth_min = | depth_avg = | depth_max = | discharge1_location= | discharge1_min = | discharge1_avg = | discharge1_max = <!---------------------- BASIN FEATURES --> | source1 = | source1_location = | source1_coordinates= | source1_elevation = | mouth = | mouth_location = | mouth_coordinates = | mouth_elevation = | progression = | river_system = | basin_size = | tributaries_left = | tributaries_right = | custom_label = | custom_data = | extra = }} thumb|right|The stream runs from the north to the south, along the west flank of Seminary Ridge '''Pitzer Run''' is a Pennsylvania stream flowing southward between McPherson Ridge and Seminary and Warfield Ridges through the Gettysburg Battlefield to Willoughby Run<ref>{{GNIS|2750116}}</ref> at the site of Pitzer's School, which was Confederate General Longstreet's headquarters during the Battle of Gettysburg (the school burned in 1915).<ref>{{citation |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KcBcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rVgNAAAAIBAJ&dq=john-nary&pg=670%2C664667 |journal=Adams County News |date=Nov 27, 1915 |title=Fire Destroys Pitzer's School}}</ref>

==History== This site was the location of an important clash between Berdan's Sharpshooters and Longstreet's corps as they were assembling prior to Pickett's charge. General Sickles described this in his oration after the battle, noting "Col. Berdan pushing through the curtain of woods, hurled his dauntless little band directly against the force intended to crush in our left flank and seize the Round Tops."<ref>{{citation |page=306 |title=Berdan's United States Sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac 1861-1865 |author=C. A. Stevens |year=1892}}</ref> {{Clear}}

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Category:Rivers of Adams County, Pennsylvania Category:Rivers of Pennsylvania

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