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are pictures taken by ACWA members who were at Gettysburg, 2008 Andrea DiMortino, Event spokeswoman for the event said, "Over 10,000 reenactors, 100 cannons and 400 horses, 100 mounted cavalryand untold amounts of spectators experienced a rare opportunity to experience historyre-created at a troop deployment level seldom seen at any reenactment." |
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Above are three of those members. The rest of the members were spread all over the field and were not available to have their Pictures taken. |
The
Elizabeth Thorn monument in Evergreen. Peter and Elizabeth Thorn were
the caretakers of the cemetery when the battle erupted. Peter was away
serving with the Union Army. Elizabeth was 6 months pregnant and living
with her children and immigrant parents in the Gatehouse. |
Waiting
to be paroled |
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Corporal Hatch asking for double canister |
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![]() View from the Angle looking directly at the Virginia Monument across the field in the middle of the tree line. It's a long way off but it's an unimaginable distance to be covered under fire from Union cannon. In the middle of the photo is the fence on Emmitsburg Road . Photo Courtesy of Ralph & Georgina Tartaglia and Ellen Smith |
Special
thanks to Doug Erickson, John Hayes, Jerry Foster, Jonah Hatch,Theo
Mattingly and Robin Shields for the photos and the kind people of Gettysburg. |
| For some great You Tube movies of the Gettysburg event, Click here |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEo026BLKw |
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