30 Consequential Minutes on Seminary Ridge
By Phil Spaugy The 1st Corps had been driven from East McPherson’s Ridge. After an hour of some of the most intense combat of the Civil War, its battered 1st
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Gettysburg’s Lutheran Seminary in the Line of Fire
By Ronald S. Coddington A quiet irony surrounds the Lutheran Theological Seminary, a place dedicated to faith and religious instruction that became a sanctuary for wounded soldiers seeking refuge from
Within These Walls: Gettysburg’s Seminary Hospital
The Seminary hospital during and after the Battle of Gettysburg, told through portraits and personal accounts of Union soldiers, surgeons, and nurses. Featuring images from the collections of the Adams
Long Sol: Indiana’s Fighting Quaker
By Lance J. Herdegen During a military review in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln said with a sly smile that Solomon Meredith of Indiana was “the only Quaker general I have
A Grand Gathering of Soldier Faces: Brady’s Galleries
Those who made the trek to Brady’s National Photograph Gallery in the early 1860s never failed to come away impressed. “It is a grand gathering of human faces, human celebrities,
A Romance Fueled by Photographs
By Charles T. Joyce The Adams County Courthouse in Gettysburg had been erected just a few years before the war with great expectations. According to Fannie Buehler, a resident in