grandencampment

29 photos tagged grandencampment, from 1 member of Flickr Commons.

When were these photos taken?

28
1910
1913

 

Where were these photos tagged?

None of these photos are geotagged.

Tags that often appear on the same photos:

Members using this tag

Photos

Photos tagged grandencampment:

Loading photos…

See more on flickr.com →

Recent uploads

The last upload was September 2009.

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos:

Guards - Gettysburg (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Paul Denton said:
    Love how they handle their weapons! Hands over the muzzle, rifle perched nonchalantly over the shoulder. Awesome.
  • bakeerboys109 said:
    The guy on the right looks like George Burns. I wounder.

Dinner Time - Gettysburg (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • MDRails said:
    I remember reading about how surprised the event organizers were by the youthful appetites of the veterans at one of the reunions (I can't remember if it was the 1913 or 1938 reunion or both), they were good eaters. At one of the events, they drank all the whiskey provided twice over. In a live radio interview from '38, one veteran being questioned went off on the following tangent: (from memory) "I want to talk about women's skirts. They are too short. Why, when I was at the sporting house last week ... " (cut off by interviewer).
  • David Foster said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Veterans of the American Civil War, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • carlacarlacarlacarla said:
    I'm an Admin for a group called The Mess Tent, and we'd love to have this photo added to the group!

Gen. Sickles's Carriage, Gettysburg (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 4 older comments, and then…
  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    The Great Reunion, Gettysburg, July 1913: www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/sidebar/reunion13.htm
  • Nathan Adams said:
    Gen. Dan Sickles: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Sickles
  • BobMeade said:
    General Sickles is sitting next to his housekeeper and mistress Mrs. Wilmerding. General Sickes had one leg - thus the use of the carriage to get to the site. See comparison photograph here: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3681834943/ Close by Bloody Angle, in the background of this photograph, is where Sickles lost his leg, " Alexander's guns poured destruction upon the "bloody angle," moving forward in the desperate charge led by Barksdale against that fatal salient. Under that impetuous assault Sickles's line tell back across the stone wall. Sickles, standing with his staff at the Trostle house, was struck by a ball which broke his leg and he was carried into the house." [ ref. page 287 of Picket and His Men by La Selle Corbell Pickett (Mrs. Gen. George E. Pickett). Chapter 34 - Gettysburg 2nd day. On Google books here: books.google.com.au/books?id=N_r3ExDynecC&lpg=PA284&a... bloody angle&pg=PA287#v=onepage&q=Sickles bloody angle&f=false and in the LOC here: lccn.loc.gov/25020009
  • technogeo said:
    The vehicle at center is an automobile, not a carriage. There is a steering wheel and the driver is wearing goggles and a duster. It has the monogram A.L.O. on the side, probably in gold leaf. The horse is not hitched to the vehicle. It is wearing a saddle.
  • BobMeade said:
    Well spotted technogeo.