Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Fred Hawthorne is the author for our 140 Places Every Guide Should Know series. He is on Cemetery Ridge by the marker to John Page Nicholson. Nicholson was Chairman of the Gettysburg National Park Commission fro[...]
Here is a panorama from the northwest corner of the Pennsylvania Monument. The Round Tops are on the left and Cemetery Hill is on the right. (for the larger JPEG version click here, or you can download the uncompressed TIFF file (44.7 MB) here) Th[...]
This view was taken at approximately 3:00 PM on Friday, September 17, 2010. On the left we are looking to the southwest. On the right we are looking toward the northeast. For a medium-sized version of the panorama click here. For the larger JPEG ve[...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide, and Vice President of the Center for Civil War Photography, Garry Adelman, is at the 20th Maine monument trying to convince people he doesn’t hate the 20th Maine—he just wants to view them in a realistic light.[...]
The McMillan Woods tree cutting project is mostly complete. The David McMillan house is barely visible in the left background. This view was taken facing east at approximately 5:00 PM on Wednesday, September 15. In the beginning of September, we rep[...]
Private First Class Kenard Schrock, 24, was from Moss Creek, Pennsylvania. He was a machine-gunner in the 317th Infantry, 80th Division, 3rd Army. Schrock was killed in heavy fighting on Sept, 17, 1944, when a mortar shell struck his foxhole. This i[...]
Oscar Shaw was a stage and screen actor, singer, and dancer. He was born as Oscar Schwartz in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 11, 1887, and died in Little Neck, New York on March 6, 1967. He is buried in Gettysburg’s Evergreen Cemetery. [...]
Visitors standing near the Philip Snyder House, shown on the left, will now have a relatively unobstructed view of Devil’s Den and Rose’s Woods. Two houses across the street from the Snyder House were demolished last week. The demolition[...]
Today’s panorama concentrates on the Confederate view of the Peach Orchard at ground level. This panorama is taken from in front of (east of) the Louisiana State Monument. On the left is Pitzer’s and Spangler’s Woods the red Alexan[...]
Our latest panoramic update of the change of seasons from Little Round Top. This view was taken at approximately 2:00 PM on Friday, September 10, 2010. For a medium-sized version of the panorama click here. For the larger JPEG version, click here[...]