Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Christina Moon is the host for our series on West Point’s Class of 1861. She is standing on Cemetery Ridge, north of the “old” (but still standing) Cyclorama Visitor Center. The marker is to Ba[...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Garry Adelman is standing near the Trostle Farm, the buildings of which are out of sight on the left. Little Round Top is in the left background. Big Round Top is in the left center background. The “Sickle[...]
John Wilkes Booth was killed in the Richard Garrett tobacco barn on April 26, 1865. This image is from Lafayette C. Baker’s The United States Secret Service in the Late War. Rockford, IL: Rockford Publishing Co., 1889. It is courtesy of ush[...]
Our latest panoramic update of the change of seasons from Little Round Top. This view was taken at approximately 8:00 AM on Sunday, April 29, 2012. For a medium-sized version of the panorama click here. For the larger JPEG version, click here. If [...]
Today’s panorama was taken 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.[...]
The 17th Connecticut Monument is to the right of Wainwright Avenue and behind it is the monument to the 54th New York Infantry Regiment. Brickyard Lane is to the left of the newly-constructed Wainwright Avenue and to the left of the retaining wall. [...]
A cow of debatable aggressiveness paid a visit to Licensed Battlefield Guide John Archer’s East Cemetery Hill Battle Walk on the Culp Farm. This view was taken facing at approximately 2:15 PM on Sunday, April 15, 2012. Though Yankee born and b[...]
The Farmer’s Inn and Hotel in Emmitsburg, Maryland. James F. Gibson took this photograph probably in July, 1863 “where our special artist was captured,” July 5 1863. Some believe that the photograph was taken on July 5, 1863 as Ale[...]
This image titled “The harvest of death. Gettysburg, July 4, 1863… Photographed by A. Gardner, Washington,” appeared in Harpers Weekly magazine. It appears to combine elements of the Harvest of Death photo series with the “Un[...]
Jacob Ford Kent (1835-1918) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1856 and graduated 31st out of 45 members of the Class of 1861. This image was created circa 1899. It was pubished in [...]