George Leo Frankenstein’s View from Oak Hill
By Brian Johnson '14 This George Leo Frankenstein watercolor highlights some of the most prominent places of fighting during the first day – July 1st, 1863 – of the Battle of Gettysburg. The view was painted from Oak Hill, ...
Read More
Read More
George Leo Frankenstein’s View of Evergreen Cemetery
By Sean Parke The above painting depicts the top of Evergreen Cemetery as it looked in the summer of 1866. The focus of the painting is clearly the gatehouse of Evergreen Cemetery, one of Cemetery Hill’s most prominent landmarks, ...
Read More
Read More
George Leo Frankenstein’s View of McPherson’s Ridge and Reynolds Woods
By Braxton Berkey This 1866 George Leo Frankenstein watercolor encompasses the wooded area where Union Major General John F. Reynolds was killed. Based on Frankenstein’s annotations, the location seems to be in the proximity of the former Gettysburg Country ...
Read More
Read More
Frederick Gutekunst’s View of the Seminary
By Brian Johnson '14 Philadelphia photographer Frederick Gutekunst captured this image within a few weeks of the Battle of Gettysburg. The name Gutekunst may be not as well known as other photographers of the battle such as Matthew Brady ...
Read More
Read More
David McConaughy’s Letter of Invitation to Robert E. Lee
By Braxton Berkey In the summer of 1869, Gettysburg attorney David McConaughy, president of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association, invited former Confederate commander Robert E. Lee to participate in a reunion of officers in Gettysburg for the purpose of ...
Read More
Read More
