Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Fred Hawthorne is the host for our series on 140 Places Every Guide Should Know. He is standing along East High Street. The building behind him was the High Street Public School Building. This view was taken fa[...]
Major General Charles Griffin (1825-1867) was a Captain commanding Battery D, 5th United States Artillery at the First Battle of Manassas. Griffin taught artillery tactics at West Point and formed an artillery battery from the academy’s enlist[...]
William Richard Terry was wounded at Pickett’s Charge on July 3, 1863. He is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. This view was taken circa the 1860s. Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, is the home of many notable Confede[...]
Our July 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 (34.9 MB) here. This view wa[...]
The Alabama State Monument, located on Warfield Ridge in Gettysburg National Military Park along South Confederate Avenue. This view was taken facing west at approximately 6:20 PM on Thursday, October 6, 2011. As we have previously shown you, the Al[...]
The entrance to Lancaster Cemetery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This view was taken facing northeast at approximately 3:40 PM on Sunday, September 25, 2011, by Andre Mammino. We have previously profiled United States Major-General John Fulton Reynold[...]
First Sergeant Wyman White of Company F, 2nd United States Sharpshooters joined the unit in November of 1861. White never missed an engagement in which the 2nd United States Sharpshooters fought, with the exceptions of South Mountain (September 14, [...]
Walnut Hill, located in Durham County, North Carolina, was the home of United States Senator William Person Mangum (1792-1861) and his son, William Preston Mangum (1837-1861). William Person Mangum served as a United States Senator from 1830-1834 as[...]
This image is titled “An Incident of Gettysburg– The Last Thought of a Dying Father.” It probably depicts Sergeant Amos Humiston of the 154th New York Infantry Regiment clutching to his chest a photograph of his children. This ima[...]
James J. Archer is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. This view was taken circa 1862-1864. Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, is the home of many notable Confederate internments with a connection to Gettysburg. Gettysburg Dai[...]