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...American scene. But the reason becomes obvious from the story Strock told me about his assignment. His problem was to capture with one exposure a scene which surrounded him-a painting which covers 11,840 square feet on the inner wall of a special cylindrical building at Gettysburg...
Students from nearby Gettysburg College were engaged to handle the lights - six to move the towers, seven to handle heavy cables which were delivering 105 volts at 224 amperes, and two to keep guy wires out of camera vision. Lights, camera and sliding platform were then put through several trial runs...
...west on that day, after a six-week siege, Confederate Vicksburg fell to General Ulysses S. Grant. And in the east, General Robert E. Lee's forces began their sad retreat south across the Potomac after three days of the biggest and bloodiest battle U.S. history had known-Gettysburg...
...decisive victory on Federal soil would cause the disheartened North to sue for peace. Major General George G. Meade, with 88,000 Federals, followed him. The battlefield was chosen inadvertently when a Southern unit, foraging for shoes, ran into Union cavalry scouts at the little eastern Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. Fighting commenced the next day, July 1, north of the town. That night the Federal troops, driven south through the village streets, dug in on a strong hook-shaped line on Cemetery Ridge. Lee's army followed, and during the next two days in fierce fighting at Little Round...
...cyclorama on the following pages, representing the climax of Pickett's charge, is housed in a special building at the Gettysburg battlefield. Painted in 1881 by French Artist Paul Dominique Philippoteaux, it is 30 ft. high and 370 ft. in circumference. The view is from behind the Union front line, and as the viewer looks along the painting toward the right, it is as though he is turning from north to east, then toward the south and finally west...