Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Stuart Dempsey is the host for our Eleventh Corps series. He is standing by cannon and the monument marking the position of Wiedrich’s New York Battery on East Cemetery Hill. The equestrian statue to Major[...]
East Cemetery Hill is the only part of Cemetery Hill attacked by a significant amount of Confederate infantry. The Confederates briefly broke through parts of the Union lines on the hill the evening of July 2, 1863. One of the reasons is that the de[...]
The Confederate earthworks are in the right center of this view running away from the camera. This view was taken facing south at approximately 3:00 PM on Saturday, January 22, 2011. The tree cutting along Seminary Ridge has exposed approximately 3[...]
Today’s panorama concentrates on the Confederate view of the Peach Orchard at ground level. This panorama is taken from in front of (east of) the Louisiana State Monument. On the left is Pitzer’s and Spangler’s Woods the red Alexan[...]
This view was taken at approximately 3:15 PM on Friday, January 21, 2010. On the left we are looking to the north. On the right we are looking to the south. For a medium-sized version of the panorama click here. For the larger JPEG version, click h[...]
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[...]