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Image ID: AGPU

Credit:

unknown photographer

Date:

1863.07

Negative Size:

8 in. x 10 in.

Equipment:

barrel, horse

Locations & Lines:

Gettysburg battlefield PA; Gettysburg PA; Pennsylvania

Military Units:

CS Army; Louisiana Tigers; US Army

Structures & Establishments:

German Reformed Church (Gettysburg PA)

Sources:

Library of Congress; National Archives; University of Maryland (Baltimore County); USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

The MOLLUS Collection says: Gettysburg.

Library of Congress says: Scene of the charge of the Louisiana Tigers. View taken from Cemetery Hill at about position of right gun of Wiedrich’s (i. e. Weidrich’s) Battery [Summary: Photo shows the site where confederate infantry commanded by Brigadier General H.S. Hays (the Louisiana Tigers) charged against Union batteries on Cemetery Hill on the evening of July 2nd and broke through the Northern defensive line before a Union counterattack pushed them back. The German Reformed Church is in background.]

Forms panorama with Related Image. which is identified variously as Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Culpeper Court House.

Etched onto negative: No 144.

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