Gettysburg - March 2008 Highlights

I changed my mind. I’m a woman, we’re apt to do that. =) That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. Here are a few of my better photographs from this trip.
Recognize this monument up close? It’s the monument to the 78th and 102nd New York Infantry regiments on Upper Culp’s Hill.

There was great light for a morning trip to Culp’s Hill. I also got a good picture of the Dutchess County Regiment (the 150th New York).

A few more images of the Culp’s Hill area that were particular stand outs appear below.

Images left to right each row: Culp Barn, view of Gettysburg from Culp’s Hill Tower; Monuments to the 5th Ohio including it’s badge; General George Greene’s memorial on the summit of Culp’s Hill near the War Department tower.

This is a detail of the bugler on the Virginia Monument.

I also took a few close ups of General Lee on Traveller which you can see here and here.

Here are some more images from Confederate Avenue:

I must admit I especially like the image of the Bushman Farm with the wild growing (I assume) daffodils. Daffodils are associated with the American Cancer Society. The other farm (on the left) is the Biesecker Farm.

The monument to the left is a detail of the 17th Maine Monument along De Trobriand Avenue near the Rose Farm in the Wheatfield. As you probably are aware, the Wheatfield is my favorite area of the battlefield to study.

Below are a few monuments in the heavily monumented Wheatfield and Loop areas.

The monument to the left shows the Andrews Sharpshooters looking towards the Rose Farm. The second monument is a detail of the 4th Michigan’s Colonel Jeffords. He was bayoneted in the Wheatfield while defending that flag.

And of course you can’t go to Gettysburg with a camera and not stop to take pictures of the Sach’s Covered Bridge. (I also wandered back to take pictures of Pitzer’s Schoolhouse too.)

Other mandatory shots:

While almost no one misses the Pennsylvania Monument, Meade, and Hancock, not everyone bothers with visiting Benner’s Hill and the historic Daniel Lady Farm, but I think it’s worth a look-see, especially this time of year when you can make out the different rooftops and spires from behind the guns of Latimer’s Battery along Benner’s Hill.

And then there are of course some shots you take just because you think they look cool. Into that category falls the following four pairs of pictures:

And then there is of course the mandatory pictures of the Devil’s Den.

And finally I conclude with some images of sunset at Gettysburg. On this trip, I tried to shoot not only old favorites and old stand bys (like Warren and the 72nd Pennsylvania’s soldier swinging his musket at the Angle), but also some different views.

For example, this is Hampton’s Battery at the Peach Orchard.

Some of the images were chosen not because they were spectacular or fantastic but because the sky in them was just so different and unique.

(If I ever start waking up early enough, I will start scoping out sunrise locations. For now, you’ll just have to settle for sunsets.)

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