cwh00162 – Vintage Wall Art
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This rare historic image captures cwh00162 in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gettysburg maps from this period usually trace the ground where the armies met over three days in July 1863, including the ridges, the town's streets, and the rural roads that carried troops in and out. Commanders on both sides relied on such maps to plan movements and read terrain, and the printed versions that followed reached newspapers, veterans, and later visitors trying to follow the fighting. Looking closely at a map like this shows how much the battle turned on high ground, roads, and the small farms and fields that became famous names. Its value lies in how it records the landscape as the soldiers themselves would have seen and fought over it.
| Original scan | 2,362 × 3,075 px · prints to 8 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | cwh00162 |
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