CASSIE & TOM'S GETTYSBURG PHOTOS
Miscellaneous Photos
This page is a series of miscellaneous photos taken from various locations.
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These are caissons on the area of the field known as The Angle on Cemetery Ridge. The monument in the left background is General Meade. His headquarters is to the right just out of view. |
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Title of this photo is 'INSIDE THE 44TH NY'. It was taken from the inside of the New York Monument on Little Round Top.This photo was selected to be included in a book of photographs published by PICTURE.COM. |
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This photo was taken in the Triangular Field. (the daylight photo of the field is on the previous page) It was taken about 10 feet inside the gate on Thanksgiving night of 2000. We are not sure what it is, only that it scared one of us when (she) saw the photo on the LED screen of our digital camera. We left immediately after seeing this photo. There are two versions of what people see. What do you see??? We sent the photo to a few 'expert ghost hunters'. They all agreed it's the real thing. Whether you believe in ghosts or not one thing is certain. The battlefield after dark is a fascinating place! |
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You never know what you'll run across while touring the battlefield. We enjoyed watching this white fox search for prey. |
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Re-enactors often have a small encampment on the lawn of the National Civil War Wax Museum on Steinwehr Ave. Unfortunately we only have the identity of the seated gentleman. He's Colonel Robert L. Thomas, Third Division Fifth Corps Army of the Potomac. |
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This observation tower was built during the early 1970's on private property. After years of losing court battles the National Park Service finally stole it claiming "eminent domain". It was senselessly destroyed on July 4, 2000. Their explanation was they "want to return the area to it's 1863 appearance". However, they plan on building a megaplex visitor center within a stones throw of where the tower once stood. We feel, as do many others, this will only lead to more traffic congestion, cheap motels and strip malls leading into town from the south. How this returns the area to it's 1863 appearance is beyond us. We're all for preserving the battlefield but stealing private property while telling the public they want the area how it used to be, only to build something else in it's place is hardly the way to go about it. The NPS has said for many years that commercial ventures have no place on this hallowed ground and have removed many of them. The epitome of hypocrisy is the new visitor center will be a private enterprise and commercial as it gets. |
Music playing is "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
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