A glass plate titled “View in Field on Right Wing Where General Reynolds Fell At The Battle of Gettysburg.” Is this view one of a few photographs taken following the battle that were mislabeled? What other photographs do we know were mislabeled that have a relationship with the area around McPherson’s Woods/Reynolds’ Woods?This image was [...]
A glass plate titled “View in Field on Right Wing Where General Reynolds Fell At The Battle of Gettysburg.” This image was taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan for Alexander Gardner circa July 5-6, 1863. It is courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Director of History and Education for the Civil War Trust, Garry Adelman earned his [...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guides Garry Adelman on the left and Tim Smith on the right are standing in the low ground between East McPherson’s Ridge and Seminary Ridge, which is in the background of this photograph. They are showing the northeast view of the John Cummings’ Harvest of Death Location. This image was taken facing [...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guides Garry Adelman on the left and Tim Smith on the right are standing on the east slope of East McPherson’s Ridge. They are showing the northeast view of the John Stewart and Scott Hartwig Harvest of Death Location. This image was taken facing east at approximately 4:45 PM on Sunday, February [...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guides Tim Smith on the left and Garry Adelman on the right are standing east of East Cemetery Hill in the area of the Henry Culp Farm. The vehicles in the background are located on East Confederate Avenue. Tim and Garry are showing the east view of the Tom Maricino, Troy Harmon, [...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guides Tim Smith on the left and Garry Adelman on the right are standing near the “old” Cyclorama Building on Cemetery Ridge. Garry is holding his “Journal of Civil War Scribblings.” This image was taken facing north at approximately 3:45 PM on Sunday, February 5, 2012.
Director of History and Education for the [...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Garry Adelman is standing near the Trostle Farm, the buildings of which are out of sight on the left. Little Round Top is in the left background. Big Round Top is in the left center background. The “Sickles Tree” is growing out of Garry’s head. The Sickles Headquarters Marker is to [...]
This image titled “The harvest of death. Gettysburg, July 4, 1863… Photographed by A. Gardner, Washington,” appeared in Harpers Weekly magazine. It appears to combine elements of the Harvest of Death photo series with the “Unfit for Service” photograph. This view appeared in Harpers Weekly on July 22, 1865, volume 9, number 447, page 452. [...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guides Garry Adelman and Tim Smith are south of the Henry Spangler Farm, whose buildings are shown in the right background. Garry is holding a copy of Gettysburg Magazine Issue #3. In this issue, Historian Earl Coates proposed that the Harvest of Death photographs were taken at the location where Tim and [...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guides Garry Adelman, on the left, and Tim Smith are at the northeastern section of Sherfy’s Peach Orchard. The Trostle Barn is visible in the center background, between Garry and Tim. The Pennsylvania State monument is visible on Cemetery Ridge in the left background. This view was taken facing northeast at approximately [...]
This photograph taken from Seminary Ridge after the battle shows the Hagerstown Road/Middle Street and the Borough of Gettysburg. Notice how the month after the battle, some fence rails are up, and almost all the fence posts along the Hagerstown Road are still in place. If one believes a Harvest of Death photograph was taken [...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guides Tim Smith (bearded) and Garry Adelman (clean-shaven) are the hosts for the Harvest of Death series. They are shown on Oak Hill, circa 1990 around the time when Garry first met William Frassanito to show Frassanito Garry’s first Harvest of Death site. This was a self-timed photo looking southward circa 1990.
Director [...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guides Tim Smith (displaying the two key Harvest of Death scenes) and Garry Adelman are the hosts for the Harvest of Death series. They are standing on the south end of the Gettysburg Battlefield. The Rose Farm is in the left background near the white fence. Cemetery Hill is in the left [...]
This photograph shows a man on a pedestrian bridge spanning Plum Run. The big rocks of Devil’s Den are in the background. On the other (west) side of Plum Run, and just to the left of the man is a rock with a distinctive horizontal gash. This gash allowed Tim Smith to find out where [...]
This photograph shows the Plum Run Valley/Valley of Death area in the late 1800s. The “Smirking Rock/Smart Ass Rock/Smiley Rock” is in the right lower section of this view. The new monument to the 40th New York Infantry Regiment is the light colored object in the center background. The slope of Little Round Top is [...]
This photograph shows the Devil’s Den area as it looked at the time of the battle. The rocks that Garry Adelman has named “three rocks by the road” are the three closest to the camera position. Little Round Top is in the left background. This view was taken by Alexander Gardner’s crew, facing northeast on [...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide Garry Adelman is one of the hosts for our series on Devil’s Den. He is standing by the Devil’s Den plaque which was erected circa 1900. The “Devil’s Bath” rock is the first large rock immediately behind Garry. This view was taken facing southwest at approximately 3:30 PM on Friday, July [...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guides Garry Adelman on the left and Tim Smith are the hosts for our series on Devil’s Den. They are standing by some of the most recognizable rocks of the Devil’s Den area, including the Table Rock. This view was taken facing northwest at approximately 3:00 PM on Friday, July 1, 2011.
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Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide, and Vice President of the Center for Civil War Photography, Garry Adelman, is pictured here instructing school teachers connected with the Civil War Preservation Trust on the Antietam National Battlefield. With Barry Martin and Tom Danninger, Garry created the CD, The Gettysburg Park Commission Photos: Then & Now. This view was [...]
Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide, and Vice President of the Center for Civil War Photography, Garry Adelman, talking about the Trolley near the Wheatfield at the 2010 Image of War Seminar, October 2, 2010 in Gettysburg. Photo by Norwood Smith. With Barry Martin and Tom Danninger, Garry created the CD, The Gettysburg Park Commission Photos: Then [...]