JPK Huson 1863
Brev. Brig. Gen'l
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2012
- Location
- Central Pennsylvania
The Elliot Map, both chilling and striking- an incredible reminder of Gettysburg's most tragic legacy, the war dead, was completed in 1864. Perhaps arguable in content but given the date- in 1864 the mind-boggling task of recovering our dead for proper internment had just been completed. Barely. Basil Biggs, one of Gettysburg's remaining black citizens, a vetrinarian had been paid I think a buck twenty five for each body recovered as the National Cemetery took solemn shape. From October 1863 to March 1864 he and his crew found, disinterred and reburied 3,500 cemeteries- raising money while he was at it for an organization he founded called 'The Sons of Good Will'. While burying our honored dead Basil bought land for black cemeteries.
There remains controversy on the number of soldiers laying in peace under our most famous battlefield, unrecovered ; by no means forgotten. My own opinion is allow them their peace after 150 years. We know they are there. Once a man, forever a soldier marched into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on a hot, unspeakable July day in 1863. Their last moment on this planet was given to a country, a last thought to a home in which waited in quiet, growing panic a family, a member vanished as if snatched up into war's roiling sky. The earth welcomed his remains below; the greetings above, what peace he found there quieted in an instant war's roar. Let be.
" Elliott's map of the battlefield of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Made from an accurate survey of the ground by transit and chain. F. Bourquin & Co., liths., Philada. S. G. Elliott & Co. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Philadelphia], S. G. Elliott & Co., c1864. NOTES Scale 1:9051. Shows breastworks and rifle pits, graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, "dead horses" reads and streets, relief by hachures, vegetation, drainage, houses and names of residents. "
http://www.thehistoricalarchive.com/products/Pennsylvania-Civil--72.html
To get to the thread- beyond grim statistics and seeing those three days rage across one of the most lovely landscapes with which Pennsylvania is gifted ( and we have an awful lot ), are the what may as well be tiny coffins, side-by-side, where two ancestors vanished. Two. After these fragments are posted, will find JPK's tiny marker and David Adams, Day 1 and Day 2, 126th NY, 11th PA.
Both Union and Confederate graves are here. Perhaps less is known about the Confederate fallen, still, commemorating war dead is never a mistake. If anyone's ancestor fell at Gettysburg, where was he, do you know?
The " introduction"
This is a ' key ', Union grave drawn like a fence, Confederate without lines through
http://www.loc.gov/resource/g3824g.cw0332000/
This is all Library of Congress- nothing here which may not be reproduced.
Four sections of Cemetery Hill, very many graves, sorry to go backwards
From here, am just listing landmarks included in the snip
Lee's HQ, the Thompson House
Herbst barn
E. Spangler's
Peach Orchard, here is where I'll find JPK, by Plum Run. The 126th New York and Barksdale and redeeming the Harper's Ferry cowards is right here.
Bushman's
Few more, need another post
There remains controversy on the number of soldiers laying in peace under our most famous battlefield, unrecovered ; by no means forgotten. My own opinion is allow them their peace after 150 years. We know they are there. Once a man, forever a soldier marched into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on a hot, unspeakable July day in 1863. Their last moment on this planet was given to a country, a last thought to a home in which waited in quiet, growing panic a family, a member vanished as if snatched up into war's roiling sky. The earth welcomed his remains below; the greetings above, what peace he found there quieted in an instant war's roar. Let be.
" Elliott's map of the battlefield of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Made from an accurate survey of the ground by transit and chain. F. Bourquin & Co., liths., Philada. S. G. Elliott & Co. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Philadelphia], S. G. Elliott & Co., c1864. NOTES Scale 1:9051. Shows breastworks and rifle pits, graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, "dead horses" reads and streets, relief by hachures, vegetation, drainage, houses and names of residents. "
http://www.thehistoricalarchive.com/products/Pennsylvania-Civil--72.html
To get to the thread- beyond grim statistics and seeing those three days rage across one of the most lovely landscapes with which Pennsylvania is gifted ( and we have an awful lot ), are the what may as well be tiny coffins, side-by-side, where two ancestors vanished. Two. After these fragments are posted, will find JPK's tiny marker and David Adams, Day 1 and Day 2, 126th NY, 11th PA.
Both Union and Confederate graves are here. Perhaps less is known about the Confederate fallen, still, commemorating war dead is never a mistake. If anyone's ancestor fell at Gettysburg, where was he, do you know?
The " introduction"
This is a ' key ', Union grave drawn like a fence, Confederate without lines through
http://www.loc.gov/resource/g3824g.cw0332000/
This is all Library of Congress- nothing here which may not be reproduced.
Four sections of Cemetery Hill, very many graves, sorry to go backwards
From here, am just listing landmarks included in the snip
Lee's HQ, the Thompson House
Herbst barn
E. Spangler's
Peach Orchard, here is where I'll find JPK, by Plum Run. The 126th New York and Barksdale and redeeming the Harper's Ferry cowards is right here.
Few more, need another post