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Here 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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Anita Hatch, Jonah Hatch and Jim North . Many members of the ACWA were most fortunate to take part in the amazing Gettysburg reenactment.

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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Anita Hatch, Jonah Hatch and Jim North

 

Corporal Hatch asking  for
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Jonah Hatch and Anita Hatch after the battle

The above photographs taken by
 Jonah Hatch and Theo Mattingly

 



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

Please visit the Ralph & Georgina Tartaglia and Ellen Smith  web site at:
http://www.gettysburgguide.com/index.html
There you will find a wealth of information about Gettysburg, events
and news about the 146th Gettysburg, July 3,4 and 5th, 2009

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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