July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
Nice 50th Anniversary photograph of soldiers of the 90th Pennsylvania Infantry at the reunion on the battlefield. ID’d in negative as #46, 9”x7-1/4”, by W.H. Tipton of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Good condition. On July 1, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg, the 90th Penn. Infantry was placed in support of the Union line on McPherson's Ridge. Forced to retreat with the rest of the I Corps, it was assigned with the rest of the division to the southern end of Cemetery Ridge. The chaplain of the regiment, Horatio Stockton Howell, was cruelly murdered on the steps of the Lutheran Church during the retreat. Lyle was temporarily appointed to command of the 1st Brigade, with Sellers taking over the regiment. It did not fight during the rest of the battle, suffering only some shelling.
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