Union Gen. John F. Reynolds was killed at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, while directing his command along the Chambersburg Turnpike in the early fighting. His body was carried to a house in town, where orderlies found only a marble-cutters box that was too short for a coffin, knocked out one end, and laid the body inside. An ambulance then carried it to Union Bridge, where the Western Maryland Railroad shops had been established in 1862. At undertaker John Forney’s shop at 15 West Broadway, railroad pattern maker John Hollenberger built a coffin. Reynolds’ remains were packed in ice and placed aboard a train bound through Westminster to Baltimore, then routed to Philadelphia and finally Lancaster, his home town. At Westminster, the main supply depot for the Union army at Gettysburg, the car carrying his body stalled in heavy military traffic until Gen. Herman Haupt, a fellow Pennsylvanian and chief of U. S. military railroads, arranged for it to pass through to Baltimore unimpeded. Reynolds was interred in Lancaster Cemetery on July 4. After the battle, thousands of wounded soldiers followed his route through Union Bridge to Baltimore on the Western Maryland Railroad, and railroad timetables still identify the tracks just southeast of the station as the Hospital Tracks of July 1863.