"Another Monumental Monday Morning Meandering"

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"State of North Carolina Monument" 

Today was my 63rd visit to Gettysburg this year, I live 62.2 miles away. What you see before you is a focus stacked, 3-bracket image, containing 15 separate photographs.

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"Approaching Cemetery Hill"

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"Angles Around "The Angle""

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"A common field one day. A field of honor forever."

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"Anticipating Autumn's Approach"

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The Fourteenth
Connecticut
Volunteer Infantry
2nd Brig. 3rd Div. 2nd A.C.
Advanced to this point in a charge about 9:30 A.M., September 17th, 1862, then fell back eighty-eight yards to a cornfield fence and held position heavily engaged nearly two hours; then was sent to the support of the first brigade of its division at the Roulette Lane two hours; then was sent to the extreme left of the first division of this Corps to the support of Brooke’s Brigade and at 5 P.M. was placed in support between the Brigades of Caldwell and Meagher of that Division, overlooking “Bloody Lane”, holding position there until 10 A.M. of the 18th when relieved.
This monument stands on the line of Companies B and G near the left of the Regiment. In this battle the Regiment lost 38 killed and mortally wounded, 88 wounded and 21 reported missing.
Regiment mustered August 23, 1862 with 1015 men
Recruits 697 men, total 1712
Battle record from Antietam to Appomattox
Engagments 34
Killed and mortally wounded 202
Died of disease 186
Wounded 549
Discharged for disability 319
Erected by the State of Connecticut 1894

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"Dow's 6th Maine Battery"

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"Sun Sets Along Culp's Hill"

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"Summer's Retreat". Labor Day's last light withdraws.

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"Exposed to the Fire of Slavery and Freedom"

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Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial at Gettysburg (web version)

Friend to Friend

Union General Winfield Scott Hancock and Confederate General Lewis Addison Armistead were personal friends and members of the Masonic Fraternity.
Although they had served and fought side by side in the United States army prior to the Civil War, Armistead refused to raise his sword against his fellow Southerners and joined the Confederate Army in 1861.
Both Hancock and Armistead fought heroically in the previous twenty-seven months of the war. They were destined to meet at Gettysburg.
During Pickett’s Charge, Armistead led his men gallantly, penetrating Hancock’s line. Ironically, when Armistead was mortally wounded, Hancock was also wounded.
Depicted in this sculpture is Union Captain Henry Bingham, a Mason and staff assistant to General Hancock, himself wounded, rendering aid to the fallen Confederate General. Armistead is shown handing his watch and personal effects to be taken to his friend, Union General Hancock.
Hancock survived the war and died in 1886. Armistead died at Gettysburg July 5, 1863. Captain Bingham attained the rank of General and later served 32 years in the United States House of Representatives. He was known as the “Father of the House.”
Shown on the wall surrounding this monument are the names of the States whose soldiers fought at the Battle of Gettysburg.

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"Sunday's Sundown Silences..."

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Army of Northern Virginia 
Longstreet’s Corps Hood’s Division 
Henry’s Battalion Latham’s Battery
The Branch Artillery

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Henry House

Spring Hill Farm - now simply known as Henry Hill - lay fallow and overgrown in the summer of 1861. A small vegetable garden and orchard surrounded the frame house. Inside the home, 84-year old Judith Henry remained bedridden, too old to work the land that had been in her family for more than a century. She shared the home with her daughter Ellen. A hired teenage slave, Lucy Griffith, assisted with domestic chores.

The Battle of Bull Run culminated on the Henry property. Unaware of civilians inside the home, Federal artillery fired on the dwelling to drive away Confederate sharpshooters. The cannon fire crashed through the house, mortally wounding the widow Henry, the battle's only known civilian fatality. By day's end the family matriarch was dead, the house in ruin, and the surrounding landscape forever redefined by the events of July 21, 1861.

Following the war, the Henry family constrcted a new home near the site of the original war-time structure. Built in 1870, with an 1884 addition, the current structure remained in the Henry family until the early 1920s. The house subsequently served as the first museum and visitor center at Manassas Battlefield. Today, the house contains exhibits and is open daily each summer. ~ National Park Service

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The Eternal Light Peace Memorial

The memorial was dedicated by President Franklin Roosevelt on July 3rd, 1938, the 75th anniversary of the battle. One Union and one Confederate veteran unveiled the 47 1/2 foot tall shaft. Roosevelt compared the task of the men of the 1860’s with the men of his day: “All of them we honor, not asking under which Flag they fought then – thankful that they stand together under one Flag now.” In less than five years the grandsons of these veterans would be standing together in unimaginably terrible battles against enemies around the world.
Over 250,000 people attended the dedication, with an estimated 100,000 more unable to make it due to overcrowded highways. Over 1,800 Civil War veterans attended what was to be the last reunion, all of them at least in their nineties. They lived in a luxurious tent camp complete with electricity and boardwalks set up in the fields north of Gettysburg College, attended by a host of Boy Scouts.
The memorial’s $60,000 cost was provided by donations from state both north and south. Its base is made of Maine granite, while the shaft is of a lighter colored Alabama limestone. The gas-lit eternal flame burned until 1979 when it was replaced by electricity, but it was restored in 1988. The monument was the inspiration for the eternal flame on President Kennedy’s grave at Arlington National Cemetery.
~ stonesentinels.com

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Henry Burke, Drummer Boy at Shiloh by J. Arthur Moore
Among the many who fell on the Federal side was little Henry Burke, the 13-year-old drummer boy, who was among those who perished in the fighting in “the Hornets Nest.” Some soldier who, perhaps, viewed the dying scene of this brave boy, penned the following lines shortly after the battle, entitled The Drummer Boy of Shiloh.
On Shiloh’s dark and bloody ground
the dead and wounded lay,
Amongst them was a drummer boy
that beat the drum that day;

A wounded soldier raised him up —
his drum was by his side –
He clasped his hands, and raised his eyes,
and prayed before he died.

“Look down upon the battlefield,
O Thou our heavenly Friend,
Have mercy on our sinful souls” —
the soldiers cried, “Amen!”

For gathered ’round, a little group,
each brave man knelt and cried –
They listened to the drummer boy
who prayed before he died.

“Oh, Mother,” said the dying boy,
“Look down from Heaven on me!
Receive me to thy fond embrace!
Oh, take me home to thee!

“I’ve loved my country as my God,
to serve them both I’ve tried,”
He smiled, shook hands, death seized the boy
who prayed before he died.

Each soldier wept then like a child —
stout hearts were they, and brave;
The flag, it was his winding sheet –
they laid him in his grave.

One wrote upon a simple board
these words, “This is a guide,
To those who mourn the drummer boy
who prayed before he died.”

Angels round the throne of grace,
look down upon the brave,
Who fought and died on Shiloh’s plain
now slumb’ring in the grave.

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"Pougue's Battalion - Ward's & Brooke's Batteries"

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