John and Barbara Adams met on an anniversary walk on the Gettysburg battlefield on July 1, 1998. Today we will be presenting the first of a number of audio files we have digitized from the John and Barbara Adams Tape Collection. The collection consi[...]
This view was taken facing east/southeast circa 1900. Please click on this image to enlarge it. The panoramic view above was taken circa 1900 from the top of the Oak Ridge observation tower. At the request of our readers, we were able to take both t[...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Fred Hawthorne is standing in the Soldiers National Cemetery by the artillery pieces marking the location of Lieutenant Eugene Bancroft’s Battery G, 4th United States Artillery. These weapons are two of si[...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Rich Kohr is kneeling near the marker 5232 in Mrs. Robert E. Lee’s Rose Garden. Under this stone are the remains of three amputated legs. This view was taken facing northeast at approximately 3:30 PM on [...]
President Warren G. Harding (1865-1923) traveled to Gettysburg in 1922 on his way to visit his home in Marion, Ohio. He stopped at Gettysburg to watch approximately 5,500 members of the United States Marine Corps reenact “Pickett’s Char[...]
This photograph was taken from Houck’s Ridge looking west. This would be the view that some members of the the 124th New York Infantry Regiment had as Confederates attacked (moving towards the camera) from Warfield Ridge/Seminary Ridge. The st[...]
The photographer is standing on Houck’s Ridge just down the ridge from the monument to the 99th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment (shown in the right portion of this shot), facing Little Round Top and Plum Run Valley. This view was taken at appro[...]
A close-up of Alexander Gardner’s stereo view “Unfit for Service – on the battlefield of Gettysburg. July 1863,” opened in Adobe Photoshop. Since we posted our story about the location of Alexander Gardner’s “Unfit for Servic[...]
The Round Tops can be seen in the left and center background of this photo. This view was taken facing southwest at approximately 1:45 PM on Wednesday, January 12, 2010. The Gettysburg and Adams County area saw 2 to 4 inches of snow Tuesday night, d[...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Stuart Dempsey is the host for our Eleventh Corps series. He is standing on the east slope of East Cemetery Hill. Culp’s Hill is in the background. Wainwright Avenue is located near the monuments shown in [...]