Gettysburg National Military Park – Pennsylvania Photo Gallery by Jerry Pillarelli at pbase.com

Gettysburg National Military Park – Pennsylvania

Images of Gettysburg National Military Park – Southern Pennsylvania, taken in May 2022.

Memorializing the largest battle on American soil, the Gettysburg National Military Park details the steps of both the Union and Confederate armies over the fateful three days of the pivotal battle of the American Civil War.

It’s hard to comprehend. Over three days more than 51,000 soldiers were dead, wounded or missing. McPherson Ridge, Little Round Top and the Valley of Death, the Wheatfield; all crucial battle sites where the two armies faced off in the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. On the third and climactic day of the fighting, July 3rd 1863, General Lee’s Confederate army lost over 5,000 men in one hour in a final attack against General Meade’s Union soldiers known as ‘Pickett’s Charge’. One day later Lee’s army began its retreat to Virginia, ending the general’s bold plan to invade the North.

Months later, in November 1863, President Abraham Lincoln would come to Gettysburg to the dedication of the Soldier’s National Cemetery and deliver a 272-word, two-minute speech forever remembered as The Gettysburg Address.

A cannon in the fog near the Peach Orchard in Gettysburg NMP	Landscape in the fog in Gettysburg NMP	A cannon on the battlefield in Gettysburg NMP	Fog shrouds a farmhouse on the battlefield in Gettysburg NMP	A cannon near Cemetery Ridge in Gettysburg NMP
View of the field where the Confederate ‘Pickett’s Charge’ came on July 3 in Gettysburg NMP	Union cannons at The Angle set to fend off the Confederate army in Gettysburg NMP	Union cannon at The Angle, the climactic point of the Battle of Gettysburg, in Gettysburg NMP	Corpse of Trees and the ‘High Water Mark’ for the Confederate army in Gettysburg NMP	Statue of Union Commander General George G. Meade at the Angle in Gettysburg NMP
Union Cannons overlooking The Angle in Gettysburg NMP	The Corpse of Trees and memorial near the Confederate High Water Mark in Gettysburg NMP	Union canons posted at The Angle, where the Confederates were driven back in Gettysburg NMP	Eternal Light Peace Memorial, honoring all soldiers, in Gettysburg NMP	Farmhouse in the fog on the battlefield in Gettysburg NMP
The Virginia Memorial topped by Confederate Commanding General Robert E. Lee in Gettysburg NMP	Bullet holes on the side of a building in the town of Gettysburg in Gettysburg NMP	The Gettysburg Train Station, where President Lincoln arrived in November, in Gettysburg NMP	Cannoneer statue on a memorial in Gettysburg NMP	Pennsylvania Memorial, the largest in the park, in Gettysburg NMP
The Bloody Wheatfield, site of deadly July 2nd battle, in Gettysburg NMP	Fence on the edge of The Bloody Wheatfield in Gettysburg NMP	Cannon in the Valley of Death at the base of Little Round Top in Gettysburg NMP	View of the Valley of Death from Little Round Top in Gettysburg NMP	Plum Run flows through the Valley of Death as seen from Little Round Top in Gettysburg NMP
The Devil’s Den on the edge of the Valley of Death in Gettysburg NMP	Trees bloom in the Devil’s Den on the edge of the Valley of Death in Gettysburg NMP	View of Little Round Top from Plum Run in the Valley of Death in Gettysburg NMP	Plum Run flows at the base of Little Round Top in Gettysburg NMP	Cannon near a farm on the battlefield in Gettysburg NMP
Statue of Brigadier General Samuel W. Crawford along Plum Run in Gettysburg NMP	Goose in a beaver pond along Plum Run in Gettysburg NMP	N.Y. Infantry Monument along Plum Run in the Valley of Death in Gettysburg NMP	Great Blue Heron along the banks of Plum Run in Gettysburg NMP	Soldier statue on top of the Minnesota Infantry Regiment Volunteers Memorial in Gettysburg NMP
Cattail going to seed in Plum Run in Gettysburg NMP	Turtle sunning itself on a rock in Plum Run in Gettysburg NMP	Cannon overlooking a field in Gettysburg NMP	Hole in the Abraham Trostle barn created by a Confederate artillery round in Gettysburg NMP	Dead tree in the Valley of Death at the base of Little Round Top in Gettysburg NMP
Cannon on the battlefield in Gettysburg NMP	Cannon shot and bullets lodged in a dead tree in the Visitor Center in Gettysburg NMP	Lincoln Speech Memorial at the Soldier’s National Cemetery in Gettysburg NMP	Soldier’s National Cemetery markers of Battle of Gettysburg unknown soldiers in Gettysburg NMP	Battle of Gettysburg grave markers in the Soldier’s National Cemetery in Gettysburg NMP

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