By Tricia Runzel ’13, Gabby Hornbeck ’13, and Becky Oakes ’13
Within the last couple of years, the Gettysburg Cyclorama Building has become a point of tension for Gettysburg buffs across the country. After a long battle, the National Park Service has recently begun demolishing the structure. In an effort to better understand the controversy over the fate of the Cyclorama Building, three Civil War Institute Fellows have completed a three part video series explaining both sides of the argument and why the decision was ultimately made to return the landscape to its 1863 appearance.
Click below for our final installment of this series, “Returning the Landscape to its Battlefield Appearance.” If you missed parts one and two, check out “The Cyclorama Land in July 1863” and “Mission 66 and the Creation of the Cyclorama Building.”
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Sources:
“Defense of Cemetery Hill Rehabilitation Project.” Gettysburg Foundation.
Gettysburg National Military Park. “Final Disposition of the Gettysburg Cyclorama Building: Environmental Assessment.” National Park Service, GETT179110: August 2012.
Rozzo, Mark. “Cyclorama Building.” Los Angeles Times Magazine, June 21, 2004.
“Union Monuments At Gettysburg.” Stone Sentinels.
“Ziegler’s Grove – Gettysburg, PA.” Waymarking.
“Ziegler’s Grove and Rose’s Woods Resources.” Gettysburg Daily.
