OT Bull Run & GB pics

[geofflambert]

This pick is of my friend standing in Plum Run. I believe this was taken where it runs between the Little Round Top and the Devil's Den, where the next series of pics begin. Note that he's wearing a purpleish shirt, by coincidence on this day I was too. Be careful not to confuse us in the next two series of pics as only one of us is up to no good. I'm wearing Khakis and he's wearing jeans.




see you back here tomorrow maybe, but I'm going to go see the dark knight rising, and planning not to get murdered by someone momentarily infatuated with guns and how they go BANG!

[John 3rd]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

This suggestion may arrive too late but here goes, "Oh Johhhhn...it's 12:00..do you know where Longstreet is?"

Pope was such an IDIOT! Let's ignore HALF the ANV because I really, REALLY think Stonewall is retreating...

[John 3rd]

NICE Pics by the way...

[geofflambert]

the Devil's Den. The boulders you see here as well as in the general area and on Culp's hill eg. were deposited here by the continental ice sheet from the last ice age. First I give you a sky view of the area, Devil's Den is center left. The red arrow in the lower right points to the approximate area where I took the first pic you will see, looking at the southern side of Little Round Top. The red arrow in the center shows the approximate spot where the next six pics were taken, a panorama. Before I get to that first pic, though I'll show a sky view of the top of LRT. The red arrow in that points to a tall monument you can see in a pic from that panorama, as well as one from on top of Devil's Den later. An important thing to note is that the Devil's Den is elevated above the valley below and not all that much lower than the LRT. Additionally there is a bit of a dip in elevation between them. For your reference, Round Top is just a bit south of the DD.

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This is the closeup of the LRT. The red arrow points to the 91st PA monument.

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Here is the pic from the south face of LRT.

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Here I believe I'm standing on a stone on the edge of Plum Run looking directly at the top of LRT. You can see there's quite a drop between me and that top, and that the top of LRT is not all that much higher than my position. I am looking east here and the panorama will proceed counter clockwise.
Note the monument to the left, that's the one pointed out in the skyview. (91st PA)
The large monument you can see between the trees at center right is for the 44th NY

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Here we're looking nearly north, note that the ground is rising on the left, rising toward the DD.

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Here the tourist paths through the DD begin.

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This is not part of the pan, we're moving in. That's me and I'm over 6'1" if that matters.

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Reminds me a bit of "Picnic at Hanging Rock" except for the trees.

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Here you can see that monument atop LRT, again not that much higher than DD.
You can see the 91st PA monument center left

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Looking south from DD.

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This shot from the stone wall west of DD, looking WNW. The approaches to both DD and LRT.

[geofflambert]

Originally posted here was something that was in part intended to satirize Mathew Brady. He was the famous photographer who after the battle (some days later) threw corpses on a wagon and carted them around the battlefield, posing them at different sites as though that was the way he found them. If you saw the collection of his photos, you couldn't help but notice that the same corpses kept showing up at different sites on the battlefield posed differently. In the photo I posted, I posed as one of Brady's "models". While my method might be described as satire, it was pointed out that it could be interpreted as disrespectful of the men who died there. A large part of the reason I posed thusly, and posted it here however was that I thought it was funny. It was not.