1863/07/05

Photograph

Title: Dead on Devil's Den, July 5, 1863

Devil's Den, Gettysburg, PA. Shows dead Confederate sharpshooters among the rocks. [Slightly different from .23] [Possibly posed.]

GLC05137.024

1863/07 ca.

Photograph

Title: Dead on Culp's Hill near Gettysburg, Pa

[Title inscibed on verso.] "J. T. Duvant. Paid."

GLC05137.025

1863/07 ca.

Photograph

Title: Confederate Soldiers as they fell, near the Centre of the Battle-field of Gettys

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. From Gardner's Gallery. Negative by Alex. Gardner.

GLC05137.026

1863/07 ca.

Photograph

Title: Interior View of Breastworks on the extreme left [Gettysburg]

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. From Gardner's Gallery. Negative by Alex. Gardner. [Gettysburg]

GLC05137.027

1863/07 ca.

Photograph

Title: Gettysburg from the cemetery

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. From Gardner's Gallery. Negative by Jas. F. Gibson. Showing tents on the right-hand side of the photograph.

GLC05137.028

1863/07 ca.

Photograph

Title: View of Breast-Works on Round Top, Gettysburg

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. From Gardners Gallery. Negative by Jas. F. Gibson.

GLC05137.029

1863/07 ca.

Photograph

Title: Meadow over which the 2d Mass. and 27th Indiana charged on morning of July 3d

W. H. Tipton & Co., Gettysburg, Pa. [Title continued] "Woods occupied by Confederates, Johnston's Div. Ewell's Corps."

GLC05137.030

1863/07 ca.

Photograph

Title: Dead Confederate Sharp-Shooters at the Battle of Gettysburg

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. From Gardner's Gallery. Negative by T. H. O'Sullivan.

GLC05137.031

1863/07 ca.

Photograph

Title: View in Wheat-field Opposite Our Extreme Left at Battle of Gettysburg

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. From Gardner's Gallery. Negative by T. H. O'Sullivan.

GLC05137.032

1863/07 ca.

Photograph

Title: View of losser's [Trostle's] Barn, where the 9th Massachusetts Battery was cut u

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. From Gardner's Gallery. Negative by T. H. O'Sullivan.

GLC05137.033

1863/07 ca.

Photograph

Title: Gen. Meade's Head-Quarters during the Battle of Gettysburg

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. From Gardner's Gallery. Negative by Alex. Gardner.

GLC05137.034

1865/09/23

Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown (Philadelphia, Penn.), fl. 1860-1869

Photograph

Title: Three young soldiers' orphans, Alice, Frank & Frederick, vignette group portrait

Imprint on recto "Frank, Frederick, Alice." Graphite inscription on verso "B" "W.H.P." Photographers imprint on verso: "The Children of the Battle Field' This is a copy of the Ferrotype found in the hands of Sergeant Humiston of the 154th N.Y. Volunteers as he lay dead on the Battle Field of Gettysburg. The copies are sold in furtherance of the National Sabbath School effort to found in Pennsylvania an Asylum for dependent Orphans of Soldiers; in memorial of our Perpetuated Union. This Picture is private property and cannot be copied without wronging the Soldiers' Orphans for whom it is…

GLC05111.02.1027

1906/12/07

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Sam Chapman

Cousin Alice's visit to Covington, Va.; speculation about the Robertson family (from San Francisco); work on his book Stuart's Calvary in the Gettysburg Campaign.

GLC03921.20

1907/10/09

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Typed letter signed

Title: to: Messrs. Moffat Yard & Co.

Defense of his book Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign, with enclosed copy of a reader's opinion of the book.

GLC03921.22

1910/02/15

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sam Chapman

Defense of Stuart's absence at Gettysburg, prompted by a newspaper article; treason case against Jefferson Davis.

GLC03921.30

1910/04/12

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sam Chapman

Belief that Walter Taylor has prompted the recent articles about Gettysburg, in an attempt to clear his name at the expense of Lee; forwarding a letter from Allen Potts.

GLC03921.31

1913/06/12

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Sam Chapman

Free transportation to Gettysburg for Confederate veterans.

GLC03921.40

[1861-1865]

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: "Breast work on Left wing Round top Getezsburg [Gettysburg]."

Shows a lone man in a straw hat (perhaps Brady) amongst fallen trees and a crude stone fortification.

GLC03029.21

[1863/07]

Photograph

Title: "Wheatfield where Gen Reynol[d]s was Killed."

Variation on O'Sullivan's photo of the wheatfield. Shows a man (probably Brady) crouched at the edge of a pond and looking down. See also image #35 in this collection, and GLC# 2435, Gardner reprint of "Field where Gen. Reynolds fell, Gettysburg."

GLC03029.29

[1863/07]

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: "View of Barns near where Reynolds was killed."

Another version of O'Sullivan's photo of the wheatfield, with two men facing away from the camera, and barns visible in the distance. Brady may be the seated figure in the straw hat. See also image #28 in this collection.

GLC03029.35

[1863]

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: "3 Reb Pris[oners] behind B[reast]works. "

Image of three Confederate prisoners gathered behind the breastworks. Identified as Gettysburg in Ward, 237.

GLC03029.07

1905/12/23

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sam Chapman

News of Chapman's appointment under Brown Allen; finding Lee's letter book over the Gettysburg Campaign.

GLC03921.12

1870 ca.

Photograph signed

Title: [Vignette bust portrait of John William Hoffman in uniform]

Carte de visite-sized engraving of officer in 56th Penn., the infantry unit credited with firing the first volley in the Battle of Gettysburg.

GLC07788

1863/7/10-11

Smith, David V.M., 1823-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elizabeth Smith

Describes the Battle of Gettysburg. Smith was stationed in the Union center near a stone wall. Smith's regiment may have missed the first day's battle because he writes Pickett's Charge occurred on the second day. "We was in the front & center for 3 days & nights it Rained every day & night. 2 nights I lay or sit in water about 6 inches deep by the side of a Stone fence that was of good use to us for protection against their Balls there was a powerful effort made on the centre the Second day after they had tried the Right & Left & been Repulsed in both they had 160…

GLC04189.49

1863/08/13

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Document signed

Title: General Orders no. 83 re: day of fasting and prayer

After Gettysburg: "Soldiers! we have sinned against Almighty God . . . we have not remembered that the defenders of a just cause should be pure in his eyes--that our lives are in his hand, and we have relied too much on our own arms for the achievement of our independence."

GLC07177