The unassuming stone farmhouse occupied by John and Ann Rose and their seven children sat amid 230 acres of verdant land on the eastern side of the Emmitsburg Road about two miles south of Gettysburg. On July 2, 1863, this patch of ground—sandwiched between the Peach Orchard to the south and Cemetery Ridge to the north—became a vortex for tens of thousands of men as the armies renewed the second day of battle. Scott Fink’s A Little Piece of Hell at Gettysburg: The Attack and Defense of the Rose Farm, July 2-3, 1863 is the first full-length study to focus on its significance. Confederates under James Longstreet swept across the Rose Farm from different directions in a bid to crush and roll up Maj. Gen. George Meade’s left flank. The Rose property, which included the Stony Hill and the Rose Woods, witnessed some of the heaviest fighting of the war as thousands of Georgians and South Carolinians flooded onto the property from the east and southeast, driving westward into sheets of lead