Carved Spandrell for the Pa. Monument at GettysburgMoore, Oscar Reyton
A monument to Union cavalry commander John Buford stands on Chambersburg Road, one mile northwest of downtown Gettysburg. The opening artillery rounds of the battle were fired from this crest. Guns at the statue’s base are among those used in the fight. (Panoramic by Steve Mellon/Post-Gazet...
First shot monument Heth's division advanced with two brigades forward, commanded by Brig. Gens. James J. Archer and Joseph R. Davis. They proceeded easterly in columns along the Chambersburg Pike. Three miles (5 km) west of town, about 7:30 a.m. on July 1, the two brigades met ...
These were the days before dog tags. Occasionally during the Civil War, when men suspected they were being ordered to their deaths, they’d write their names on scraps of paper and pin them inside their clothing. At Gettysburg, corpses could only be identified by company insignia or marks of...