more interesting battlefield details

In lieu of the usual monument post today (Leap Year Day!), I decided to do a follow-up post to the “devil is in the details” post I did about a week or two ago.

By the way … Who came up with the idea of putting Leap Year Day in FEBRUARY?!? How about we tack an extra day on to June instead. (I’m thinking whoever came up with the idea must have been from the Southern Hemisphere. Forget the Right Wing Conspiracy thing — It’s a Down Under Conspiracy, I am telling you!)

Rocks!

Row 1: Boulder near Devil’s Den at Triangular Field; boulders on Little Round Top

Row 2: Culp’s Hill boulder; the stonewall on Seminary Ridge

Creatures - Chipmunks

In the National Cemetery and on a wooden fence near the Virginia Monument

Creatures - Birds

On Buford’s head (red-wing blackbird), robin in the Wheatfield, buzzard on Little Round Top

Creatures - Cows (Moooo!)

Row 1 from the Rose Farm, row 2 near the Culp Farm.

Creatures - BUGS! And a toad!

GRASSHOPPER on Seminary Ridge; caterpillar near the Peach Orchard; caterpillar near the Wheatfield; toad in Rose’s Woods

Creatures - Horses!

The friendly gray horse at the Codori farm.

Monumental Inscriptions

Georgia State Monument; Virginia plaque. Indiana State; fading inscription on Little Round Top where Hazlett fell (behind 91st Pennsylvania Monument). 1st USSS (Berdan Avenue); 6th Independent NY Battery (near current Visitor’s Center)

Shadows

Pennsylvania Monument; the Longstreet tower.

Cannons

Little Round Top, Seminary Ridge.

Cavalry

4th New York; 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry

Southern Memorials

Monumental Detail

The Railroad Cut

Iron Confederate Tablets

Historic Farms and Barns

Bronze Officers

Sach’s Covered Bridge

The Union High Command

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