JPK Huson 1863
Brev. Brig. Gen'l
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2012
- Location
- Central Pennsylvania
Perhaps these two have already been well documented. One of my favorite " Gettysburg " photographs shows the town post battle- you could almost dismiss it for what it is- another delightful, mid-century Pennsylvania village replete with clapboard, tidy gardens, raked paths and requisite church steeples hugging gentle hilltops. We're lucky there are a few of these- I think August? One distracts your eye with a scattering of white and brave shapes on heights beyond Gettysburg. We know this to be Camp Letterman, the flowering of tents coinciding with the removal of all wounded from the tidy houses seen below as Gettysburg struggled to return to some semblance of normalcy. It never would.
Fortunate, National Archives allows downloads at high resolution and huge sizes- love tooling around Gettysburg's streets and alleys through this medium, don't ask me why. Always been a puzzle why the streets are so deserted- and they are not. Never noticed these two citizens before. Love this stuff- may not be a kick for everyone.
Now that I know they're there, seems very obvious! Looked at this photograph a hundred times without picking up on them.
Fortunate, National Archives allows downloads at high resolution and huge sizes- love tooling around Gettysburg's streets and alleys through this medium, don't ask me why. Always been a puzzle why the streets are so deserted- and they are not. Never noticed these two citizens before. Love this stuff- may not be a kick for everyone.
Now that I know they're there, seems very obvious! Looked at this photograph a hundred times without picking up on them.