Winds gusts were measured up to 30 MPH this afternoon. The snow was blowing against our car’s window while we sat along the eastern arm of McPherson’s Ridge.The McPherson Barn and the Buford equestrian monument are visible. This view was[...]
The National Park Service recently removed piping from an older era along the park’s western boundary at McMillan Woods and Redding Ln.The privatley owned Brown’s Ranch, A.P. Hill’s headquarters during the battle, sits at the end o[...]
Bob Resig has volunteered at Gettysburg National Military Park for almost twenty years. Today he’s rebuilding a wall along the Wheatfield Road.This view was taken facing southeast at approximately 2:00 PM on Saturday, March 11, 2017. We ran i[...]
We stopped by the Biser Fitness Trail at the Gettysburg Area Recreation Authority’s Rec Park on Friday afternoon.This view was taken facing south at approximately 3:45 PM on Friday, March 10, 2017. After being told that the trail was built on[...]
Drone footage taken from above the Civil War Trust’s property on East Cemetery Hill in Gettysburg [no sound].This video was taken on August 5, 2016 by Garry Adelman and Jim Drey of the Civil War Trust. The National Park Service banned citizens[...]
There are a number of monuments at Gettysburg that have mistakes or idiosyncrasies on them. A few of our readers noticed the backwards “S” on the cartridge box on the monument to the 29th Ohio. We’re standing along the Emmitsburg R[...]
Only hours after remaining units of the Army of the Potomac had left Gettysburg, Alexander Gardner’s photography crew recorded this view of the Evergreen Cemetery Gatehouse on July 7, 1863. The photograph provides one of the most detailed view[...]
The stone wall construction occurring on Cemetery Ridge has continued.The equestrian statue to Major General George Meade can be seen in the center-right background. This image was taken facing northwest at approximately 5:45 PM on Sunday, March 5, [...]
Then: The 29th Ohio Infantry monument, located along the east side of Slocum Avenue on Culp’s Hill. Veterans pose with Gettysburg historian John Bachelder (standing), who was referred to by the Gettysburg Compiler in 1887 as “Colonel Joh[...]
Gettysburg National Military Park’s most famous peach orchard, the Sherfy Peach Orchard, was restored in 2008.Three artillery batteries can be seen in the background. Hampton’s Battery (Pennsylvania Light Artillery Battery F) is in the r[...]