. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . DEAD ARTILLERY HORSES AFTER FIGHT AT TROSTLE S HOUSE AND EARN IN GETTYSBURG. SOME knowledge of the slaugh-ter of Gettysburg may begained by this picture of Tros-tles house and barn at whichwas stationed a Union battery of lightartillery. This view shows wherethe guns stood. Sixty-five of theeighty-eight artillery horses were leftdead on the field. About this time,on the last day of the greatest battleof the war, Pickett made his fiercecharge, which is one of the mightiestin history. It was witnessed by
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . DEAD ARTILLERY HORSES AFTER FIGHT AT TROSTLE S HOUSE AND EARN IN GETTYSBURG. SOME knowledge of the slaugh-ter of Gettysburg may begained by this picture of Tros-tles house and barn at whichwas stationed a Union battery of lightartillery. This view shows wherethe guns stood. Sixty-five of theeighty-eight artillery horses were leftdead on the field. About this time,on the last day of the greatest battleof the war, Pickett made his fiercecharge, which is one of the mightiestin history. It was witnessed by thetwo great armies in the middle of theafternoon of a summer day—a mostspectacular tragedy of magnificentcourage. It has been said that Gettys-burg was the common soldiers battleand that its great results were due,not so much to military strategy as tothe intelligent courage and the mag-nificent heroism of the brave soldiers.
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