The Fight of Gettysburg was bloody and brutal. It ended 72 hours after it began, on This summer 3, 1863, departing almost 50,000 casualties thrown over the Pennsylvania fields. The northern coming of the Confederate Military, brought by General Lee, had arrived at a halt because of miscalculations and it was now in retreat because of the military skill of Union General Meade.
Leader Abraham Lincoln subsequently would go to the battleground five several weeks later to provide his famous Gettysburg Address and also to dedicate the Soldiers' National Graveyard, and also the legacy of Gettysburg would survive, in cycloramas and re-enactments, history texts and documentaries.
The American Civil War was among the first wars portrayed in photographs, not works of art. Mathew Brady and the team of 17 assistants crisscrossed the battlefields with portable darkrooms, taking the stars of war and also the aftermath of fighting. Below, around the 150th anniversary from the Fight of Gettysburg, are images in the small Pennsylvania town that lots of historians say was the level from the Civil War.
A defunct Confederate soldier in Devil's Living room, Gettysburg. Photograph titled 'The Home of the Digital rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg', from 'Gardner's 'Photographic Sketchbook from the Civil War' Volume I, plate 41 - pub. 1866. (Alexander Gardner/Getty Images)
See more featured photography curated by Caramba Today' photo editors, and also at Otherwise This Could Happen, the Caramba Today photography blog.
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