Gettysburg Greg
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Jun 6, 2010
- Location
- Decatur, Illinois
Nearly two weeks after Pickett's Charge, Mathew Brady took this photo of the Brian house (believing it was the Leister house, Meade's HQ) that included a body probably killed on July 3rd. No, not the very undead Brady assistant seen "portraying" a corpse, but the hollowed out carcass of a horse seen in the foreground. Brady, himself, wrote "Meade's Headquarters" on the back of the image and it is not known if he ever became aware of his error. The Brady assistant laying on the ground is the same man seen in many of Brady's series of Gettysburg photographs including two other images in which he "appears" to be a casualty of the battle. I don't believe the apple tree is a witness tree although it does have a similar appearance to the modern image-any opinions?
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