Licensed Battlefield Guide Dave Weaver is a 23 year veteran of the guide force, a wildlife artist, and a recently returned veteran from Iraq. Dave served as a Captain (Staff Officer) in an infantry unit for the United States Army. He is standing i[...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Elwood “Woody” Christ is the author of the book, Over a Wide, Hot,…Crimson Plain: The Struggle for the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg, July 2nd and 3rd, 1863. He is the host for our series on the fig[...]
Brigadier-General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, an 1861 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, was the commander of the United States’ cavalry division that reached Hanover from Littlestown on June 30, 1863. This view, court[...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Stuart Dempsey is the host for our series on the Eleventh Corps at Gettysburg. He is standing on the corner of Middle Street and Baltimore Street. The Fahnestock House/Fahnestock Building (Fahnestock Brothers [...]
On the left the camera is pointing to the northeast and on the right of the view the camera is pointing to the southwest. For the larger JPEG version click here, or you can download the uncompressed TIFF file (30.2 MB) here. This view was taken at[...]
Big Round Top is on the left, and Benner’s Hill is on the right in this view. The Culp’s Hill Tower Panorama was taken from southwest to northeast at approximately 6:30 AM on Wednesday, August 5, 2009. Today’s post includes panoramas fro[...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Roy Frampton is the co-author (with Licensed Battlefield Guide Jim Cole) of the book Lincoln and the Human Interest Stories of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. He continues our series of the Gettysburg Nation[...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide George Newton is standing by an 1862 3-inch ordnance rifle on East Cemetery Hill. The Evergreen Cemetery Gatehouse is in the background. This view was taken facing southwest at approximately 3:45 PM on Sunday,[...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Tim Smith is the co-author of the book Devil’s Den, A History and Guide from Thomas Publications. He continues our look at Gettysburg Rock Carvings by showing us the most well-known rock carving, “[...]
The building known as Ford’s Theatre was constructed in 1833 as the First Baptist Church of Washington. In 1861, after the congregation relocated to a newly built structure, John T. Ford bought the former church and renovated it into a theat[...]