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High Tide: The Battle of Gettysburg

November 1, 2011 By admin

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A view of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (Harper's Weekly, August 22, 1863; NPS History Collection)

Sharpshooters firing from the windows of houses in Gettysburg (July 1863, Alfred R. Waud, artist; Library of Congress)

Union General John Reynolds falls from his horse in a wooded area on the battlefield on the first day of the conflict (July 1, 1863, Alfred R. Waud, artist; Library of Congress)

Major General George G. Meade, commander of the Union forces at Gettysburg (Mathew Brady, photographer; Library of Congress)

Major General George G. Meade, from a Currier and Ives print (1863, Currier & Ives, publisher; Library of Congress)

General Meade established his headquarters in Gettysburg in this house owned by Lydia Leister (November 1863; Library of Congress)

Meade and his generals held a council of war in the Leister house on the second night of the battle (U.S. Army Military History Institute)

General Robert E. Lee led the Confederate army at Gettysburg (Julian Vannerson, photographer, March 1864; Library of Congress)

General Robert E. Lee's headquarters for the Battle of Gettysburg, along the Chambersburg Pike, was the home of Mary Thompson (Harper's Weekly, August 22, 1863; NPS History Collection)

Fighting in the Devil's Den on July 2, 1863 (1888; Library of Congress)

Union General Samuel W. Crawford seized his regiment's colors and led the charge that drove back Confederates on the Unions left flank (Alfred R Waud, artist; Harper's Weekly, August 8, 1863; NPS History Collection)

Confederates advancing to attack Union forces on Little Round Top (Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress)

Little Round Top and the adjacent Devil's Den (July 4, 1863, Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress)

Confederate artillery firing at Union forces on the hill (July 1863, Alfred R. Waud, artist; Library of Congress)

Union artillerymen on Little Round Top fire at the Confederates below (July 3, 1863, Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress)

A sketch of the previous image (July 2, 1863, Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress)

Union soldiers and artillery near the center of the Union position, with the town of Gettysburg and the gatehouse of the Evergreen Cemetery visible in the distance (Alfred R. Waud, artist; Harpers Weekly, July 25, 1863; NPS History Collection)

Confederate Louisiana Tigers charge a Union battery on the second day of the battle (Harpers Weekly, August 8, 1863; NPS History Collection)

de set up rifle pits and cannon in the woods on the left side of the Union line (July 1863, Alfred R. Waud, artist; Library of Congress)

Lieutenant Charles Hazlett's Battery B of the 5th U.S. Regiment fire from Little Round Top on July 2 (Alfred R. Waud, artist; Harper's Weekly, July 25, 1863; NPS History Collection)

Union batteries on the left flank of the Union line fire on the Confederates (Edwin Forbes, artist; Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 18, 1863; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

Confederate General James Longstreets corps assaults the Union Third Corps under General Daniel E. Sickles in the Peach Orchard on July 2 (July 2, 1863, Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress) <br />

Edwin Forbes later painted a version of his Peach Orchard sketch (c.1865, Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress)

The gatehouse to Gettysburg's Evergreen Cemetery; the cemetery was laid out in 1854 and the gatehouse was built the following year (Harper's Weekly, August 22, 1863; NPS History Collection)

Union artillery batteries are in position near the cemetery gatehouse on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 2, 1863, Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress)

The Confederate charge on Cemetery Hill on the night of July 2nd, 1863 (Louis Shepheard Moat, ed., Frank Leslie's Illustrated History of the Civil War [NY: Mrs. Frank Leslie, 1895], 339)

Confederates under General Richard S. Ewell charge the waiting Union defenses at the cemetery gatehouse (Edwin Forbes; Library of Congress)

The 5th Maine Light Artillery on Cemetery Hill before Pickett's Charge (July 3, 1863, Alfred R. Waud, artist; Library of Congress)

The battlefield on Friday morning, July 3, with Union soldiers rushing to the front lines, past reserve troops waiting in the rear (Edwin Forbes, artist; Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 18, 1863; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

Detail of the previous image showing ambulances moving towards the battlefield

This pencil drawing by Edwin Forbes was used to create the previous image that was printed in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (July 3, 1863, Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress)

Edwin Forbes' painting of the previous scene presents a simpler image, with much of the activity in the foreground of his original sketch removed (c. 1865, Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress)

Confederate General Richard Ewell's force attacks the right flank of the Union Army on Culp's Hill on the morning of July 3 (July 1863, Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress)

Edwin Forbes' painting of the previous image (c.1865, Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress)

Union soldiers behind the breastworks on Culp's Hill on the morning of July 3 (c.1870, Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress)

Union General G.K. Warren surveys the battlefield from the signal station on Little Round Top (c.1888; Library of Congress)

An 1876 engraving of James Walker's 1870 painting "The Repulse of Longstreets Assault at the Battle of Gettysburg" (Library of Congress)

"Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 2nd and 3rd, 1863," lithograph by J.H. Bufford, 1864 (October 18, 1864; Library of Congress)

A scene from Paul Philippoteaux' 1883 Gettysburg cyclorama, depicting Picketts Charge (Library of Congress)

Confederate forces participating in Picketts charge march toward the center of the Union army around 3 P.M. on the last day of combat at the Battle of Gettysburg (c.1865, Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress)

Union forces fend off the surging Confederate troops during Pickett's Charge (c.1865, Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress)

The Confederate charge on July 3 is repulsed by Union soldiers in this Currier and Ives lithograph (U.S. Army Military History Institute)

In another Currier and Ives print, the Union forces charge the Confederate lines (c. 1863, Currier & Ives, publisher; Library of Congress) <br />

Union General William Scott Hancock directs the Union defenses against Pickett's Charge (May 16, 1887, Thure de Thulstrup, artist; Library of Congress)

After being wounded on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Union General Hancock dismounted and continued to issue orders despite the injury (The New-York Illustrated Newspaper, August 1, 1863; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

Union General George Meade, on the white horse in lower right, directs his forces during Pickett's Charge (c. 1867, William C. Robertson, printer; Library of Congress)

Battle of Gettysburg, painted by Peter Frederick Rothermel (Courtesy of the State Museum of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission)

The Confederate attack on Union lines on July 3 (Alfred R. Waud, artist; Harpers Weekly, August 8, 1863; NPS History Collection)

A colorized version of the previous image (Gettysburg National Military Park)

Soldiers engage in close combat while a surrendered unit marches away under a white flag (August 14, 1884, Kurz & Allison, publisher; Library of Congress)

Edwin Forbes' sketch of Pickett's Charge (July 3, 1863, Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress)

The previous image as it appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (Edwin Forbes, artist; Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 1, 1863; courtesy of Princeton University Library)

Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet directs troops at Gettysburg (printed c.1900 from painting by H.A. Ogden; Library of Congress)

John Burns, the celebrated Gettysburg civilian who joined the Union army on the battlefield on the first day of fighting (Harper's Weekly, August 22, 1863; NPS History Collection)

A photograph of John Burns by Timothy H. O'Sullivan (July 1863; Library of Congress)

John Burns, who was wounded while fighting alongside Union soldiers, is brought back to his house in Gettysburg (Harper's Weekly, August 22, 1863; NPS History Collection)

John Burns' house in Gettysburg (July 1863; Timothy H. OSullivan, photographer; Library of Congress)

Detail of the previous image showing Burns and probably his wife on the porch of their house

Three wounded Confederate soldiers waving a white flag approach a Union soldier on the battlefield at Gettysburg (1863; NPS History Collection)

On July 4, the day after the battle, Union soldiers on the right flank rest (July 4, 1863, Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress)

Three Confederate prisoners after the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1863, Library of Congress)

Confederate prisoners from General Longstreet's command are marched to the rear by Union guards on the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 3, 1863, Edwin Forbes, artist; Library of Congress)

A column of Confederate prisoners being marched to Frederick, Maryland (A. R. Waud, artist; Harper's Weekly, August 15, 1863; NPS History Collection)

Waud's original drawing of "Marching Prisoners Over the Mountains to Frederick, MD" (July 1863, Alfred R. Waud, artist; Library of Congress)

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