Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Stuart Dempsey is the host for our Eleventh Corps series. He is standing on East Cemetery Hill. On the right is the light blue/green water tank that distinctively marks Cemetery Hill. Wiedrich’s Battery I [...]
The Hampton Battery Rock or “Shelter Rock” protected wounded from Hampton’s Battery F, Independent Pennsylvania Light Artillery on July 3, 1863. The white buildings in the background are on the Hummelbaugh Farm. This image from the[...]
The Culp’s Hill tree cutting has finally moved to the north side of Culp’s Hill where the Iron Brigade was positioned on July 2nd and 3rd, 1863. The marker for the 7th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment is in thre foreground. On the other side[...]
On the left the camera is pointing to the northeast and on the right of the view the camera is pointing to the southeast. For the larger JPEG version click here, or you can download the uncompressed TIFF file (43.8 MB) here. This view was taken at [...]
Our November panorama from the Longstreet tower. On the left side we are looking north, and on the right side we are looking southeast. For the larger JPEG version click here, or you can download the uncompressed TIFF file (33.4 MB) here. This vie[...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide, and Vice President of the Center for Civil War Photography, Garry Adelman. With Barry Martin and Tom Danninger, Garry created the CD, The Gettysburg Park Commission Photos: Then & Now. He is instructing sch[...]
The Klingel House on the Emmitsburg Road, sporting a new coat of paint. This view was taken facing southeast at approximately 4:45 PM on Wednesday, November 24, 2010. As part of the ongoing restoration of the Klingel House (purchased by the National[...]
Colonel Henry King Burgwyn Jr. (1841-1863) of the 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment was actually born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts where his parents were vacationing. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1857 and from the Vir[...]
The characters on the Acheson Rock near the John T. Weikert House, are considered to be one of the earliest rock carvings, if not the earliest rock carving on the Gettysburg Battlefield. The letters are D. A. for Captain David Acheson of the 140th [...]
Pulitzer Prize winning Poet, Marianne C. Moore (1887-1972) is buried in Gettysburg’s Evergreen Cemetery. Here she is throwing out the first pitch for 1968’s Opening Day in Yankee Stadium. Opening Day starting pitcher Mel Stottlemyer was [...]