. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . GETTYSBURG witnessedsome of the hardest fightingthat the world has everseen. This photograph wastaken a short time after the battle in1863. This little borough became afield of carnage. In the surroundinghills occurred the terrific conflict ofBig Round Top and Little RoundTop, Seminary Ridge and CemeteryRidge, and Culps Hill, the BloodyWheatfield and Peach Orchard. Aview is given of the little house inwhich General Meade made his head-quarters. On the first day of battlethis house was in direct range o
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . GETTYSBURG witnessedsome of the hardest fightingthat the world has everseen. This photograph wastaken a short time after the battle in1863. This little borough became afield of carnage. In the surroundinghills occurred the terrific conflict ofBig Round Top and Little RoundTop, Seminary Ridge and CemeteryRidge, and Culps Hill, the BloodyWheatfield and Peach Orchard. Aview is given of the little house inwhich General Meade made his head-quarters. On the first day of battlethis house was in direct range of theartillery fire rained by the Confed-erates on the Union lines just beforePicketts great charge. The horsesof General Meades aides werehitched to the fence and trees near thehouse. Sixteen of these horses werekilled during the artillery fire, andtheir dead bodies are seen in the MEADE S HEADQUARTERS ON CEMETERY RIDGE LEE S HEADQUARTERS ON SEMINARY RIDGE
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