Category Archives: 121st Pennsylvania Infantry

Faces of Gettysburg

Posted on June 11, 2011 by

I would like to make short vignettes of soldiers and civilians who were present at Gettysburg a semi-regular feature of this blog, both to post some of the hundreds of images that we have in the Gettysburg NMP collection, and … Continue reading →

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A Mystery Solved? Part 3

Posted on May 27, 2011 by

Who are they?  These dead men.  To Alexander Gardner and most of us who have viewed this image over the years they are tragic and grotesque props on a terrible stage.  We view them with revulsion but also curiosity.  Yet … Continue reading →

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A Mystery Solved? Part 2

Posted on May 27, 2011 by

  A Mystery Solved? Part Two     In my last post I mentioned that my search to find where Gardner’s Union death studies were taken took me to the July 1 battlefield.  There was only place I thought might possibly … Continue reading →

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A Mystery Solved? Part I

Posted on May 26, 2011 by

A Mystery Solved? – Part One From Scott Hartwig During my 31 years with the National Park Service at Gettysburg NMP it has remained a mystery where Alexander Gardner took his famous series of photographs of Union dead on the … Continue reading →

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