Cyclorama query

[observator]

There were at least cyclorama relating to Civil War battles:
1863 Battle of gettysburg PA
1864 Battle of Atlanta ga

In the Battles and Leaders of the Civil War there are drawings of at least 2 other cycloramas
Battle of Shiloh

 

[observator]

The second one is the Battle of Chattanooga

 

[observator]

do either of these other Cyclorama still exist?

 

[RedRover]

Yes, there was at least the now lost Shiloh, and Missionary Ridge cycloramas... There are photographs of them.

Here's a picture from the Shiloh one...

And from the Missionary Ridge one...

Here's some history of the Missionary Ridge one...
The Missionary Ridge Cyclorama...

 

[observator]

Thanks at least that answers that query

 

[7thWisconsin]

The physical paintings have been lost. However, the photos of the Shiloh cyclorama are amazing. You can find all of them in the Time/Life Civil War volume on Shiloh. They are extremely lifelike.

 

[observator]

WisHistory

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https://m.facebook.com/ShilohNMP/photos/the-shiloh-cyclorama-which-was-on-display-in-chicago-in-the-1880s-one-portion-of/1081954338561218/

see 3rd picture

Secession at Shiloh

Civil War History in Mississippi’s. Secession at Shiloh

www.battlefields.org

 

[observator]

Missionary Ridge

File:Storming of Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, by Chas. H. Bottom.png - Wikimedia Commons

commons.wikimedia.org

File:Battle of Chattanooga, by Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

commons.wikimedia.org

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

The Shiloh pictures show so many dead trees. I wonder if this was the way the battlefield appeared at the time of the battle, or the way it appeared when the artist visited the field long after the battle?

 

[Library Lady]

You might find this article on cycloramas in Chicago interesting.

Chicago’s Cycloramas

chicagology.com

 

[RedRover]

Supposedly, this photograph was taken at Shiloh a few days after the action...

 

[observator]

Custer last fight cyclorama about 10 pictures series:

Scenes from Custer's Last Fight in Boston Cyclorama Co.

1 photographic print.

loc.gov

Scenes from Custer's Last Fight in Boston Cyclorama Co.

1 photographic print.

loc.gov

Scenes from Custer's Last Fight in Boston Cyclorama Co.

1 photographic print.

loc.gov

Scenes from Custer's Last Fight in Boston Cyclorama Co.

1 photographic print.

loc.gov

Scenes from Custer's Last Fight in Boston Cyclorama Co.

1 photographic print.

loc.gov

Scenes from Custer's Last Fight in Boston Cyclorama Co.

1 photographic print.

loc.gov

Scenes from Custer's Last Fight in Boston Cyclorama Co.

1 photographic print.

loc.gov

Scenes from Custer's Last Fight in Boston Cyclorama Co.

1 photographic print.

loc.gov

Scenes from Custer's Last Fight in Boston Cyclorama Co.

1 photographic print.

loc.gov

Scenes from Custer's Last Fight in Boston Cyclorama Co.

1 photographic print.

loc.gov

 

[121st PA Vols]

Thanks for all the information above. These are great!

 

[observator]

glad to be of help

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

Custer last fight cyclorama about 10 pictures series:

This would really have been something to see! Thanks for the links.

 

[7thWisconsin]

It´s too bad it´s lost - the terrain is just about perfect. It still looks like that.

 

[major bill]

At a military history convention we had an hour long lecture about cycloramas. The lectue was interesting, I don't remember much, but it was mostly about the moving of the Gettysburg Cyclorama. We had borrowed the Gettysburg visitor center for an after hours concert of Civil War music and a viewing of the Cyclorama so a lecture on Cycloramas before we went seemed appropriate.

 

[7thWisconsin]

My mother remembers visiting the Cyclorama in its old, old digs. Basically an unheated barn, really. That was incredibly damaging for the painting.

 

[121st PA Vols]

My mother remembers visiting the Cyclorama in its old, old digs. Basically an unheated barn, really. That was incredibly damaging for the painting.

Not sure if you know this very first cyclorama was behind or south of the building Jenny Wade was killed in at the large parking lot of the Bus Tour Center on Baltimore Street, catty corner from the Soldiers National Cemetery; a large red brick like circular structure, maybe four stories high. East Cemetery Hill's northern slope actually. It was an imposing structure.

I cringe thinking as pre teen kids we'd throw things at the painting trying to hit guys on horses, sneaking in when the person took a lunch. We lived on the street behind the 1863 Inn of Gettysburg beside Jenny Wade's on Balt St. Pretty sure it was privately owned then. We were finally caught by someone, educated, then resorted to building tree houses on Culps Hill until Park Rangers chased us off.

 

[7thWisconsin]

Yep - that´s exactly how I´d describe its location too. It was not interpreted or curated in any way. It just hung there in a non-climate controlled space. I think you´re right about it being in private ownership.
When Mom was little, she remembers having lunch in that diner near the corner of Steinwehr and Baltimore that´s now an Asian place. My parents honeymooned in Gettysburg in 1960. They stayed at the Quality Inn, and had dinner their first night in town at the Dutch Pantry. We had a travel trailer when I was growing up, and we stayed at Granite Hill and Drummer Boy a lot. Heck, the weekend I went to college we stayed at the Sitting Bull campground that was just the other side of what is now the Eisenhower Convention Center. It was still the Sheraton when I was at Gettysburg College. What a great town to grow up in!