Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide, and Vice President of the Center for Civil War Photography, Garry Adelman, talking about the Trolley near the Wheatfield at the 2010 Image of War Seminar, October 2, 2010 in Gettysburg. Photo by Norwood Smith. [...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Rich Kohr is kneeling near the grave of Captain Charles Curtis MacConnell on the right. On the left is Evelyn MacConnell. At Gettysburg, MacConnell was a Lieutenant in Battery I 5th United States Artillery. He[...]
Here is an image where we combined the Alexander Gardner photograph with an image that we took of an area of the battlefield where we think Gardner originally took the photo. The Brigadier General Andrew Humphreys statue is in the right background. [...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Fred Hawthorne is standing in the Soldiers National Cemetery by the monument to Brevet Major General Charles Henry Tucker Collis. Collis did not fight at Gettysburg, but he is the highest ranking individual buri[...]
This Culp’s Hill Tower Panorama was taken from southwest to northeast at approximately 11:30 AM on Sunday, January 2, 2011. Today we have another panoramic update from the Culp’s Hill observation tower. For a medium-sized version of the panora[...]
On the left the camera is pointing to the southeast and on the right of the view the camera is pointing to the northwest. For the larger JPEG version click here, or you can download the uncompressed TIFF file (46.2 MB) here. This view was taken at [...]
We have combined a modern photograph of the area where we think the Alexander Gardner photograph was taken and “blended” them together. When we do, we think that the terrain matches up very well. The trees in the right background are ne[...]
Photographer Alexander Gardner titled this stereo view “Unfit for Service – on the battlefield of Gettysburg. July 1863.” This view shows a dead mule by a limber. Although it is a well-known picture from Gettysburg, we are not awar[...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Dr. Richard Goedkoop is the host for the Iron Brigade series. He is standing on Stevens’ Knoll by the marker for the 24th Michigan Infantry Regiment. This view was taken facing northeast at approximately 6[...]
Culp’s Hill as seen from East Cemetery Hill. The purpose of the National Park Service’s project to cut down trees is to restore the landscape closer to what the soldiers saw in 1863. Notice how above the white tent, in the right backgro[...]