September 08, 2014

I took this photo of the 15^TH New York Independent Battery from Birney Avenue at the Peach Orchard. It’s one of those shots that has a lot of contrast and shows many of Gettysburg’s most charming features: monumentation, beautiful artillery pieces, and iconic wooden fences. The road running at the bottom of the photo is Wheatfield Road. Also, the cannon at the upper left of the photo is a Parrott Rifle belonging to Clark’s Battery B, 1^ST New Jersey Artillery.

The second photo is a close-up of the 15^TH New York’s left-hand piece. This particular cannon tube, a Model 1857 Napoleon, dates from 1862 and was made at Mr. Cyrus Alger’s Ames Manufacturing Company. I like the fact that the weeds (or whatever they are) in the foreground are blurred while the cannon in the distance comes into sharp focus.

**HONORED TODAY**

PVT. ELLIS P. LITTLE

Co. D, 37^TH North Carolina Infantry

Born 1837 --- Died July 23, 1863 at age 26

Pvt. Little enlisted in September 1861. He survived until the 3^RD of July 1863, when he received a mortal injury to the lung. He was taken prisoner on July 5^TH and died less than three weeks later. Pvt. Little was buried at Richmond’s Hollywood Cemetery.


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