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Share Your Favorite Gettysburg Visit My favorite Gettysburg visit is to have a picnic at the battlefield amphitheater area on a warm, sunny spring day when the trees are in bloom and birdsong fills the air. Then I’ll go shopping downtown until the sun is about to set, when I’ll head back to the battlefield […]

Field Hospital Display by Amy (Maryland) Capt. Surgeon Robert Urban and Undertaker Tom Abbott This photo of members of the Pipe Creek Civil War Round Table was taken at the Carroll County Public Library’s Finksburg branch on April 24, 2010. This room featured a large display about field hospitals and how surgery and medicine improved […]

Come Home Dad by Meghan G It’s been a year, And I am still full with fear,Since I have seen him,Only praying for God’s protection life and limb, Helping ma in the field, over the hills, long endless nightsTrying to keep my sibling’s hopeful,And keeping them from frost bite, It’s hard to raise money and […]

Confederate Civil War Uniforms The Confederate Civil War uniforms were anything but uniform in color and style since they were homemade and dyed by different methods. For uniforms of the Civil war, officers and some Conferederate soldiers wore grey, but the majority wore mixed shades of brown and khaki, earning crazy rebels the nickname “butternuts” […]

Confederate Infantry by Paul Harris (Northern Virginia) Photo of a rifle demonstration at Bull Run Park. There are more at www.civilwar150photos.organdwww.oakhillstudio.org Click here to post comments Join in and write your own page! It’s easy to do. How? Simply click here to return to Civil War Clothing Photos.

Devils Den in Gettysburg The large stone outcropping of granite boulders known as Devils Den in Gettysburg is a well-loved tourist spot for ghost hunters and playful children, although Gettysburg national park regulations prohibit dangerous climbing. It always feels cool and damp there between the rocks, no matter how hot the day is, so it’s […]