Does Anyone Recognize This Stereo Card? Gettysburg

[PattyE]

I

purchased a really nice stereoviewer this week, and so I have been looking at all the stereo cards I have collected over the last nine years. It's a great painting or etching. Was this done by Edwin Forbes? It's an Underwood card, titled the Second Artillery and 19th MA Column at Gettysburg.

 

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

IView attachment 110072 purchased a really nice stereoviewer this week, and so I have been looking at all the stereo cards I have collected over the last nine years. It's a great painting or etching. Was this done by Edwin Forbes? It's an Underwood card, titled the Second Artillery and 19th MA Column at Gettysburg.

Very nice! It looks, to me, very similar to one of the scenes in the Gettysburg Cyclorama, but now that I've looked it up, I see that the one I was thinking of is the 72nd Pennsylvania, not the 19th Massachusetts, and although the figures, the terrain and the position of the caisson are close, they are not identical to the Cyclorama view. Sorry I couldn't identify it for you, but I'd bet that there is someone here who can.

 

[ErnieMac]

I agree that it was copied from the Cyclorama painting. See white horse left center below.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...3,_1863_--_Gettysburg_(PA)_Cyclorama_2012.jpg

 

[Yankeedave]

Imho it's the left of the cyclrama. See below.

 

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

Yes, @ErnieMac and @Yankeedave, that is what I thought, too. But then, since @PattyE's stereocard identifies the regiment as the 19th Massachusetts, I was thrown off by the National Park Service's current identification of the pictured regiment as the 72nd Pennsylvania. But now, after reading further about this scene in "The Gettysburg Cyclorama" by Sue Boardman, Chris Brenneman and Bill Dowling, I see that you are indeed right. The authors provide an explanation for the discrepancy: With the Cyclorama's exhibition in different cities, promoters would tailor the key to the painting to identify the troops in that prominent scene as a local regiment, for marketing purposes. The regiment shown appears to represent part of Hall's brigade, which included 19th Massachusetts, among other units. The authors note, for instance, that a key used for the exhibition in Chicago identified the troops as the brigade's Midwestern regiment, the 7th Michigan. Apparently, when the NPS began exhibiting the Cyclorama at Gettysburg in the 1940s, it was thought that based on 72nd Pennsylvania's position and the blue flag the regiment carried, it might be the Pennsylvanians who are pictured, which would certainly appeal to a Pennsylvania audience.

 

[Yankeedave]

If you follow the painting from left to right it looks to be Hall's brigade going in. imho.