Gettysburg Greg
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Jun 6, 2010
- Location
- Decatur, Illinois
Mathew Brady took at least three exposures of the Brian House on Cemetery Ridge in mid-July believing he was photographing the Leister House, Meade's HQ. Unfortunately, he must not have been aware of the significance of the Copse of Trees and the Angle which were within plain sight less than 300 yards away. The Brian house suffered significant damage from the Confederate artillery bombardment prior to Pickett's Charge, some of which can be seen in the attached photo. Other details seen in Brady's image are the hollowed out carcass of a horse that had been dead for a couple of weeks as well as the undead Brady assistant doing his best death pose lying near the house. Notice the rather unique horizontal limb extending from the apple tree in the foreground. The tree in my now shot has a similar looking appendage. Could this be surviving witness tree? Unlikely, but I refer that question to our resident witness tree expert Greg Gober.
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