An Admirable and Befitting Arrangement: The Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg

Posted by Jeffrey Anderson on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on An Admirable and Befitting Arrangement: The Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg After the battle, the fields looked and smelled like hell on earth. The bodies of the fallen had quickly begun to decom­pose. Where shallow graves had been dug, arms, legs, and heads were reported to have penetrat­ed the surface. In some places, hogs rooted out corpses, devouring them. The immense, ghastly campaign at Gettysburg, fought July 1 through 3, 1863, was over. As General Robert E. Lee...
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At the Gettysburg Battlefield with Traveling Photographers

Posted by Rae Tyson on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on At the Gettysburg Battlefield with Traveling Photographers   As Union and Confederate troops converged on the Adams County community of Gettysburg in mid-summer 1863 to wage what has been described the pivotal battle of the American Civil War, little did they know how long it would take for the rest of the world to discover the outcome. Of the five hundred journalists who covered the war, forty-five reported on the Battle of Gettysburg waged from...
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