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The Battle of Gettysburg, a major turning point in the American Civil War, was fought July 1-3, 1863. Artists, photographers, and printmakers all documented the event, using their unique talents to help people then and now understand the conflict (LOC)
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W. Endicott & Co.

Gettysburg battlefield

c1863.

1 print : lithograph, color.

Notes:
Contains small map of Soldiers National Cemetery showing arrangement of graves.
Signatures (facimilies) of generals verifying accuracy of troop positions as shown on map.
Bird's-eye view of Gettysburg battlefield, showing positions of Union & Confederate armies during the battle.

Subjects:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battlefields.
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863--Battlefields.

Format: Bird's-eye view prints--1860-1870.
Topographic maps--1860-1870.
Lithographs--Color--1860-1870.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.01158

Call Number: PGA - Endicott & Co.--Gettysburg battlefield

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During the battle, special artists sketched action scenes for publication in illustrated newspapers that reached a wide audience. Alfred Waud, shown here, was one of the best and drew the next two pictures while working for "Harper's Weekly" (LOC)
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O'Sullivan, Timothy H.,, 1840-1882,, photographer.

[Gettysburg, Pa. Alfred R. Waud, artist of Harper's Weekly, sketching on battlefield]

1863 July.

1 negative : glass, stereograph, wet collodion ; 4 x 10 in.

Notes:
Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0198
Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Gettysburg, June-July, 1863.
Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress ... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 77.

Subjects:
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
War correspondents.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Communications.
United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg.

Format: Glass negatives--1860-1870.
Stereographs--1860-1870.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) (DLC) 94837675

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.00074

Call Number: LC-B815- 254

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On the first day, Alfred Waud showed how Union General John F. Reynolds was killed. "Mounted upon a superb black horse, with his head thrown back he was everywhere upon the field, seeing all things and giving commands in person" (LOC)
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Waud, Alfred R., 1828-1891,, artist.

The fall of Reynolds

1863 July 1

1 print ; 13.7 x 22.5 cm. (sheet).

Notes:
Signed lower left: AR Waud.
Title printed below image.
Formerly Waud no. B-23.
See DRWG/US - Waud, no. 242 for original drawing. Studies also DRWG/US Waud no 410 (A size) and 411 (A size).
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.0788)
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Subjects:
Reynolds, John Fulton,--1820-1863--Death & burial.
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.
Military officers--Union--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Casualties.
United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg

Format: Prints--American--1860-1870.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Part Of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2003691200

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.20161

Call Number: DRWG/US - Waud, no. 788

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On the second day of battle, news artist Alfred Waud portrayed a major Confederate attack by the Louisiana Tigers at Cemetery Hill (LOC)
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Waud, Alfred R., 1828-1891,, artist.

Attack of the Louisiana Tigers on a battery of the 11th Corps

[1863 July 2]

1 drawing on olive paper : pencil, Chinese white, and black ink wash ; 34.6 x 22.1 cm. (sheet).

Notes:
Title inscribed below image.
Pencil grid drawn for engraver.
Inscribed upper left: 1/2 page.
Inscribed on verso: The sketch represented it as too dark.
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R2.2.533)
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 8, 1863.
Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 8, 1863.
Published in: Civil War Sketch Book by Harry L. Katz and Vincent Virga. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012, p. 120.

Subjects:
LSU Tigers (Football team)--1860-1870.
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
Artillery (Weaponry)--1860-1870.
Forts & fortifications--1860-1870.
Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.
Soldiers--Confederate--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Casualties.
XI Corps.
United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg

Format: Drawings--American--1860-1870.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Part Of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2003691200

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.21454

Call Number: DRWG/US - Waud, no. 533

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A photograph shows the area of the Confederate assault on Cemetery Hill not long after the Union battery repulsed the fierce attack by the Louisiana Tigers (LOC)
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Scene of the charge of the Louisiana Tigers. View taken from Cemetery Hill at about position of right gun of Wiedrich's (i. e. Weidrich's) Battery

[photographed 1863 July, printed between 1880 and 1889]

1 photographic print on card mount : albumen.

Notes:
Photo is the left half of a two-part panorama by an unidentified photographer. The right half is at the National Archives. (Source: Frassanito, p. 101)
Title from item.
Photo shows the site where confederate infantry commanded by Brigadier General H.S. Hays (the Lousiana Tigers) charged against Union batteries on Cemetery Hill on the evening of July 2nd and broke through the Northern defensive line before a Union counterattack pushed them back. The German Reformed Church is in background. (Source: Frassanito, p. 100)
Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Published in: Gettysburg: A Journey in Time, by William A. Frassanito, 1975, p. 100-102.

Subjects:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg.

Format: Albumen prints--1860-1870.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.32846

Call Number: LOT 4167-A, no. 20

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