Photo Essay Number Two: Reynolds Avenue & Barlow’s Knoll
Posted to the Project on 13 Jun 08
This is the second in a series of photo essays highlighting a few select shots of the Gettysburg battlefield taken in June 2008 — quite close to the 145th anniversary of the battle.
Located along the spine of the eastern portion or arm of McPherson’s Ridge, Reynolds Avenue is a post-battle avenue. Along this road are many of the First Corps monuments. This was the main First Corps battle line during the afternoon of July 1, 1863. A few cavalry monuments of Buford’s Division are also located along this park service avenue.
Reynolds Avenue also features some nice vistas of the Lutheran Theological Seminary. All of the monuments along it face westerly, so it is an area best visited for pictures during the afternoon or evening hours.
Also best viewed in the evening are the nearby monuments on the “Gettysburg Plain” to the XI Corps.
Located along a park service road known as Howard Avenue (after General Oliver O. Howard, the corps commander), these monuments honor the units of the Eleventh Corps who fought here on the afternoon of July 1, 1863. Also located nearby is Barlow’s (Blocher’s) Knoll. The knoll features the Old Almshouse Cemetery, a bronze monument of Barlow erected by the state of New York, as well as monuments to Wilkenson’s Battery and the bugler of the nine-month 153rd Pennsylvania Infantry.
