A view of some of the monuments on Howe Avenue looking across the Taneytown Road to Wright Avenue. The monument to the 49th Pennsylvania is to the right. Big Round Top is in the distance. The unit occupied this area, facing to the south, early [...]
The South Mountains, or Blue Ridge Mountains or Appalachian Mountains are in the distance. The McPherson Barn is in the background. General Robert E. Lee stated that in one of his reports about the battle of Gettysburg, that “the position [...]
Francis Channing Barlow was born on October 19, 1834 in Brooklyn, New York, was raised in Brookline Massachusetts, and would have been 29 years old at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg. His youthful features and manner of dress, however, encour[...]
The first shot of the Battle of Gettysburg was supposedly fired at this location, the home of Ephraim Whisler, by Lieutenant Marcellus Jones, Company E, 8th Illinois Cavalry. The marker is seen to the left (west) of the Whisler House. Knoxlyn Ridge [...]
The Park Service is hoping that their supervisor of the monument preservation branch will be able to go to New Hampshire this summer to make a wax mold of the head of an identical monument. When the bronze statue on the monument was vandalized, i[...]
It is finally passable! The south side of the Reynolds Avenue Bridge This view was taken from the south facing north at approximately 4:45 PM on Friday, May 30, 2008. It’s not finished yet, but our seventh visit to the Reynolds Avenue Brid[...]
It’s a jungle out there, and it was in 1863 also. The trees on the ground are remnants of the effort to clear Plum Run (about 50 yards on the west side of the Willard marker) a couple of years ago. The Klingle House and Barn are in the rig[...]
The Steinwehr Avenue neighbors aren’t very pleased by the shape in which the old Visitor Center Lawn has been left. This photograph was taken at the driveway near Steinwehr Avenue looking toward the Quality Inn Motor Lodge. This view was t[...]
The monument to Lieutenant Gulian V. Weir’s Battery C, 5th United States Artillery is in the foreground. The Gibbon Tree is to the right of the cannon. The Codori Barn is in the distance above the right cannon. This view was taken from th[...]
The monument to the 44th New York Infantry Regiment on Little Round Top. The piece of red cloth is tied to the top of the monument. This view was taken from the southeast facing northwest at approximately 1:45 PM on Monday, May 26, 2008. In the [...]