The 24th Michigan at Gettysburg

Monument to the 24th Michigan Infantry
on McPherson's Ridge at Gettysburg
Elsewhere on the field, along the southwestern edge of Culp's Hill, a small marker notes the location where the remnants of the 24th Michigan dug in after a brutal first days fighting. The simple stone reads:
24TH REGIMENT
MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
IRON BRIGADE
OF THE 496 MEN WHO WENT INTO
BATTLE ON JULY 1, 1863, 99 ANSWERED
ROLL CALL HERE ON THE MORNING
OF JULY 2 - 3 1863.
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Randy

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St. Peter's Catholic Church, Harpers Ferry, WV

St. Peter's Catholic Church
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
St. Peter's Church, erected in 1833, still stands on a ridge in beautiful Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The townspoeple carved the steps leading up to the church directly out of the hillside, composed almost entirely of shale. Despite Harpers Ferry changing hands nearly 14 times during the Civil War, the church survived the bombardments that damaged many of the structures throughout the rest of the town and served as a hospital for the casualties of both sides.

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Randy

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Harpers Ferry, WV

An aerial view of Harpers Ferry West Virginia from Maryland Heights. In the lower left hand corner of the picture you can see "John Brown's Fort", or the Harpers Ferry Armory’s fire engine and guard house, where abolitionist John Brown was captured by troops of the 2nd United States Cavalry led by Lt. Colonel Robert E. Lee. In 1859, John Brown had hoped to capture the weapons at the arsenal and insight a slave insurrection throughout the south. He was instead hanged for murder, inciting a rebellion, and treason. He would famously write just prior to his death, "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."

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Randy

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In Memory of the Fallen

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Randy

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Loss of the Innocents

An all too common image from a 19th Century Cemetery plot, Civil War era families knew the reality of death before the onset of war. This grave marker honors the memory of a family's 6 month old child.

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Randy

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Codori Farm Sunrise

Although in this image the leaves have gone for the winter and the fields surrendered their summer green, few places on earth share the purity and simplistic beauty of Gettysburg at sunrise.

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Randy

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Antietam's New York Monument

New York Monument at
Antietam National Battlefield
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Randy

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