Late 1800's photos of Gettysburg battlefield

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Meade's Headquarters.jpg


Meade's Headquarters

Stone wall 14th monument & Bloody Angle.jpg

Monument of 14th Connecticut on Cemetery Hill

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14th Connecticut reunion on Cemetery Hill

Gettysburg Scene of Pickett's Charge.jpg

Scene of Pickett's Charge and the Codori Farm

Round Top from Devil's Den.jpg

Little Round Top from Devil's Den

Spring House.jpg


Bliss barn spring house
http://members.tripod.com/bliss_barn/photogallery/photo00009578/real.htm
 
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There are a bunch of pics on the site that Ken posted of the Bliss lane, etc., as well as the spring house pic he posted. I think they are really cool, because it's hard to find any period photos of the farm, considering the Union army torched it during the battle. I've been out to the site on the battlefield a few times, and though there are a few markers, mostly it's full of poison ivy, sticker bushes and groundhogs.
 
Love those pics! I haven't seen any of those before; especially the Bliss Spring House. Thanks for posting!
 
I would have loved to have visited before modern technology, power lines and paved roads.
It would have been a long dive on dirt roads for me. Well I could have taken a train. Rent a horse when I got there? Did horses have FM radios? One word "outhouses".
 
Glad I decided to tool through some posts from a few days ago, missed these the first time around- sometimes threads end up on another page very quickly here! Healthy forum!

Thanks for these, I've never bumped into several, my goodness! It does make me smile, though- had never BEEN to the Devil's Den/Round Top perspective before last weekend, so funny to see the same photo I have in the Gettysburg file now. Thank you!
 
When was this? Looks like when I was just there the end of May. How sadly quick the vegetation grows back up.
Trees and bushes starting to get into Devil's Den again and this...the Slaughter Pen, should have almost nothing green in it. They just don't have the money/manpower to keep up with the excellent restoration work they did not that long ago.
 
When was this? Looks like when I was just there the end of May. How sadly quick the vegetation grows back up.
Trees and bushes starting to get into Devil's Den again and this...the Slaughter Pen, should have almost nothing green in it. They just don't have the money/manpower to keep up with the excellent restoration work they did not that long ago.

We were there the weekend of June 21st, 22nd? It was fairly grown up, although truly didn't spoil a thing! Of course, I'm not familiar enough with the restoration work to ascertain what was begun as far as clearing it out. I do seem to remember some of the forum members talking about areas looking different than they used- maybe that's what they were referring to! Tended to be SO distracted the whole 2 days, tough to remember conversations! :smile:
 
These are all over the place, time wise, thought I'd stick them here instead of starting a new thread. Seems a waste! I'm certain they've been seen before by most, just in case some haven't bumped into the. Just because some of us stare at these things until our eyes bleed doesn't mean everyone does! :smile:

This is that posed photo in the Slaughter Pen? It's listed as the place where Berdan's Sharpshooters held their position. What strikes me as funny about how the photographer had the poor dead guys pose is every, single one died with his face to the camera. These 2 at the left end managed to maintain a hold on their rifles, too- the second on in disallowed it from sliding down the rock!

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This was merely listed as ' Extreme Right Flank ", so would make it exactly where? I think I DO know, am not confident enough with Gettysburg to SAY it!! :whistling:
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More LRT Breastworks. It's SO odd, for all the anti-LRT backlash " Killer Angels ", and attention being given to the reast of the battle now ( don't anyone get started.... ) , an awful lot of the old pics sure are of those breastworks, inner and outer shots, aren't they? OR. Somewhere exist shots like this from other parts of the battlefield, these just surfaced because people thought they'd be worth a ton post- book and movie.
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Pickerill Collection- haven't had time to Google what that may have been. It's now LoC so perfectly fine to use it.
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Here's a pic, one of a pasted-on-cardboard, from a collection, from Day 1. Well known shots were snipped from that board- hadn't noticed this one before?
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Gettysburg Orphanage- must do a thread. What began as a SUPER, super idea and cause became a nightmare on top of nightmare filled with unimaginable horrors and tragedies for countless children. The people of Gettysburg had placed their trust in someone who violated it- dreadfully. BAD story.
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The HQ of the Sanitary Commision in town- love this because of all the packing boxes piled along the side- like cardboard boxes today. I have a few of these from when my grgrandfather had a general store in Watkins, New York. Much more character than cardboard!

This is a fairly common photo- possibly a ' real ' photo of the Slaughter Pen? Do not know this for certain. With battlefield photos, sometimes do not know. Those famous shots of dead soldiers, horribly, sadly real We've seen the posed pic which is not- do not know enough to know about this one yet!
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These are all over the place, time wise, thought I'd stick them here instead of starting a new thread. Seems a waste! I'm certain they've been seen before by most, just in case some haven't bumped into the. Just because some of us stare at these things until our eyes bleed doesn't mean everyone does! :smile:

This is that posed photo in the Slaughter Pen? It's listed as the place where Berdan's Sharpshooters held their position. What strikes me as funny about how the photographer had the poor dead guys pose is every, single one died with his face to the camera. These 2 at the left end managed to maintain a hold on their rifles, too- the second on in disallowed it from sliding down the rock!

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This was merely listed as ' Extreme Right Flank ", so would make it exactly where? I think I DO know, am not confident enough with Gettysburg to SAY it!! :whistling:
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More LRT Breastworks. It's SO odd, for all the anti-LRT backlash " Killer Angels ", and attention being given to the reast of the battle now ( don't anyone get started.... ) , an awful lot of the old pics sure are of those breastworks, inner and outer shots, aren't they? OR. Somewhere exist shots like this from other parts of the battlefield, these just surfaced because people thought they'd be worth a ton post- book and movie.
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Pickerill Collection- haven't had time to Google what that may have been. It's now LoC so perfectly fine to use it.
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Here's a pic, one of a pasted-on-cardboard, from a collection, from Day 1. Well known shots were snipped from that board- hadn't noticed this one before?
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Gettysburg Orphanage- must do a thread. What began as a SUPER, super idea and cause became a nightmare on top of nightmare filled with unimaginable horrors and tragedies for countless children. The people of Gettysburg had placed their trust in someone who violated it- dreadfully. BAD story.
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The HQ of the Sanitary Commision in town- love this because of all the packing boxes piled along the side- like cardboard boxes today. I have a few of these from when my grgrandfather had a general store in Watkins, New York. Much more character than cardboard!

This is a fairly common photo- possibly a ' real ' photo of the Slaughter Pen? Do not know this for certain. With battlefield photos, sometimes do not know. Those famous shots of dead soldiers, horribly, sadly real We've seen the posed pic which is not- do not know enough to know about this one yet!
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Great photos, Annie! But you're filling up the photo storage on my ipad . . . Thanks!:smile:
 
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