February 25, 2015

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This photo was taken from the observation deck at the Oak Ridge tower last summer. The green fields of what is now known as the 11^TH Corps Line just outside the town of Gettysburg would have looked much the same in 1863, though various features seen here --- the monuments, the newer fence around the Alms House Cemetery, and the flag pole you can just barely see at Barlow’s Knoll in the difference --- now intrude on the landscape.

Click for larger view: The tall monument seen to the left of Howard Avenue is the 153^RD Pennsylvania. Other monuments include, from left to right, the 17^TH Connecticut, the 25^TH and 75^TH Ohio, and the 107^TH Ohio (white monument, center right).

**HONORED TODAY**

CPL. JOHN GASTON UTLEY

Co. C, 47^TH North Carolina Infantry

Born December 21, 1814 --- Died July 03, 1863 at age 48 

At the time of his enlistment in February 1862, Cpl. Utley, nicknamed Gaston, was married with at least one child, a 17-year-old daughter named Dulcina. He was wounded July 3^RD in the Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble Charge, taken prisoner, and later died of his wounds.


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