Parade in Gettysburg

[Pvt.Shattuck]

Other Gettysburg views from August 1863
Chambersburg Pike

northern portion

Southern portion

 

[Free Agent]

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[Robert Gray]

Other Gettysburg views from August 1863
Chambersburg Pike

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Southern portion
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Notice the Railroad Cut in the Chambersburg Pike photo.

 

[Free Agent]

Notice the Railroad Cut in the Chambersburg Pike photo.

View of the Chambersburg Pike from the RR cut

 

[Robert Gray]

Another image of the Chambersburg Pike from 1863. Notice the Lutheran Theological Seminary in the left background.

 

[Mosin]

Another image of the Chambersburg Pike from 1863. Notice the Lutheran Theological Seminary in the left background.View attachment 7082

Is it me or is this photo opposite of what it should be? reversed?
If we are looking down the pike shouldn't the Seminary be on the right of the photo? South East if looking down the pike.
And it also looks like the RR cut is visible on the right of the photo in the distance...should be left side.

Mosin

 

[CustersWolverines]

Great photos, I had no idea they existed. Thanks for posting.

These are in Catton's "Illustrated History of the Civil War" as well as being on the cover to the book version of Ken Burns "The Civil War".

 

[reading48]

To me...If you are going West out of town, that's what it should look like....

 

[Pvt.Shattuck]

These images were taken of the crowd at the dedication ceremony

 

[Mosin]

To me...If you are going West out of town, that's what it should look like....

You have it right...that makes sense. For some reason I thought it taken facing toward the town.

Mosin

 

[rebelman]

Here is a 1916 photo of the portion of the Chambersburg pike that ran through Seven Stars, a small hamlet between Gettysburg and Cashtown that Confederates from the 1st and 3rd Corps passed on the way to Gettysburg.
The house on the right (red in the modern photo) and the house further on the right (with bay windows) still stand today as seen in the "now" photo. All of the buildings on the left of the pike that stood in 1916 are gone and there now stands the "30 West" car lot.
The view is looking west along the Chambersburg pike.