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Gardner on Little Round Top
During our most recent September to Remember visit to the battlefield, during the Little Round Top presentation, I took the opportunity to wander away where I was rewarded by my discovery of the marked location for another of Alexander Gardner's photographs, the one above of Union Breastworks on Little Round Top.
They appear on the NPS sign above; below, their location can easily be discerned from Gardner's photo, taken from almost the same spot.
The Famous Rose Farm Photos Showing Confederate Dead
Last year I had been thwarted in my efforts to find the exact location of the famous group of Gardner's photos like the one above showing dead Confederates laid out for burial, but this time I actually almost literally stumbled across the spot while taking a side drive on the NPS auto tour through the Rose Woods on the southwestern edge of the Wheatfield.
Another somewhat dim NPS sign seen above alongside a small pull-over at the edge of the woods indicated that the searched-for spot was located in the clearing just across the fence; below, a better look at it.
I didn't bother climbing over the fence or attempting to locate the "exact" angles or locations where Gardner had made his photos from, lacking as I did this time a copy of Frassinito's book. The view above seems to be looking in the opposite direction from Gardner's photo below; the current line of trees appears to be in the same location as in the historic photos.
The view below is merely in the opposite direction as my one above and likely shows (again seen from the opposite direction) the area seen in the first of Gardner's Rose Farm photos at the top of this entry.
This pull-over also featured the unit marker for Kershaw's Brigade, to which the fatalities featured in the photos, or at least some of them, may have belonged. The clearing is in the background just across the fence from the marker.
During our most recent September to Remember visit to the battlefield, during the Little Round Top presentation, I took the opportunity to wander away where I was rewarded by my discovery of the marked location for another of Alexander Gardner's photographs, the one above of Union Breastworks on Little Round Top.
They appear on the NPS sign above; below, their location can easily be discerned from Gardner's photo, taken from almost the same spot.
The Famous Rose Farm Photos Showing Confederate Dead
Last year I had been thwarted in my efforts to find the exact location of the famous group of Gardner's photos like the one above showing dead Confederates laid out for burial, but this time I actually almost literally stumbled across the spot while taking a side drive on the NPS auto tour through the Rose Woods on the southwestern edge of the Wheatfield.
Another somewhat dim NPS sign seen above alongside a small pull-over at the edge of the woods indicated that the searched-for spot was located in the clearing just across the fence; below, a better look at it.
I didn't bother climbing over the fence or attempting to locate the "exact" angles or locations where Gardner had made his photos from, lacking as I did this time a copy of Frassinito's book. The view above seems to be looking in the opposite direction from Gardner's photo below; the current line of trees appears to be in the same location as in the historic photos.
The view below is merely in the opposite direction as my one above and likely shows (again seen from the opposite direction) the area seen in the first of Gardner's Rose Farm photos at the top of this entry.
This pull-over also featured the unit marker for Kershaw's Brigade, to which the fatalities featured in the photos, or at least some of them, may have belonged. The clearing is in the background just across the fence from the marker.
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