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This
photo taken from the Angle and showing the site of the
Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble Charge is one of my favorites from my last trip. The
colors are bright and contrasting, the road is conspicuously empty, and there
are many elements of iconic Gettysburg to be seen . . . markers, stone walls,
wooden fences, and a quiet reverence that somehow seeps even through
photography. This view is closer to what the men observing Pettigrew’s assault
would have seen than the view had by those meeting the onslaught of Pickett’s
charge. Notice the skies of blue and gray? Sometimes nature *does* cooperate.
:-)
**HONORED TODAY**
CPT. ISAAC BURKHALTER
Co. G, 50th Georgia Infantry
Born October 29, 1830
--- Died July 02, 1863 at age 32
Cpt. Burkhalter enlisted in March 1862 and had formerly served as a Justice of the Peace. He was married to Lottie and had four children, Sennie (age 6), Henrietta (age 5), Charles (age 2), and Sherod (an infant). A fifth child, Isaac, was born in 1863. Cpt. Burkhalter was killed at Gettysburg and later buried at Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah.
(c) 2012-2015 Skies of Blue and Gray
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