This post is a little off the beaten path from the others in that it has no direct correlation to the 17th CVI. Well, perhaps a little more than is first apparent. The title of this post will become obvious…
Category: Gettysburg
Stuff about Gettysburg and the battle therein
The Gettysburg paintings of Frankenstein at the GNMP
There is a reason I include a link to the blog of the Gettysburg National Military Park (besides the fact that I can’t get to the park nearly as much as I’d like). Anyway, the latest post on the blog…
David Blocher and the 17th CVI flagpole
Serious students of the Battle of Gettysburg know that what we now know as Barlow’s Knoll was once Blocher’s Knoll, named after the family that owned that land around it. Serious students of the 17th CVI know that the veterans…
The Gettysburg Star (and Colonel Ira Wildman)
I found this article in the July 9, 1938 edition of the Gettysburg Star and Sentinel (published during the 75th reunion of the Blue and Gray): I suppose it still doesn’t answer the question of whether or not the star was…
The Gettysburg star
This article was found in the June 5, 1938 edition of the Daily Boston Globe: Pittsfield, June 4 – A star shot out of a flag at the Battle of Gettysburg and for many years a treasure of Mrs. Minnie Lament of…
Here today and gone tomorrow
We made a quick stop in Gettysburg today – really just an overnight stop – but enough time to spend a while on my favorite place on the battlefield, which is East Cemetery Hill. I always wonder what it looked…