Caption: Repulse of General Johnson’s Division by General Geary’s White Star Division by Peter Frederick Rothermel, Early 1870s. View of the July 3, 1863 fighting at Culp’s Hill, Gettysburg.
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Caption: Repulse of the Louisiana Tigers by Peter Frederick Rothermel, Early 1870s. View of the July 2, 1863 fighting at East Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg.
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Caption: Charge of the Pennsylvania Reserves at Plum Run by Peter Frederick Rothermel, Early 1870s. View of the July 2, 1863 fighting at Gettysburg as viewed from the Confederate side.
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Caption: Charge of the Pennsylvania Reserves at Plum Run by Peter Frederick Rothermel, 1881. View of the July 2, 1863 fighting at Gettysburg as viewed from the Union side.
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Caption: Peter Frederick Rothermel's The Death of General Reynolds. The first day's fighting at Gettysburg.
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Caption: Peter Frederick Rothermel's
Major Samuel Roberts (Study for The Battle of Gettysburg: Pickett's Charge), Late 1860s.
Oil sketch on canvas.
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Caption: Study for James Mellor, Rothermel sketched pencil portraits when he was interviewing/researching soldiers who defended against Pickett’s Charge.
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Caption: Peter Frederick Rothermel’s “Study for Elijah Cundy.” One of several study sketches of soldiers who defended against Pickett’s Charge.
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Caption:
Sharp Shooters at Round Top, by Peter Frederick Rothermel, 1867. Zouave rifleman takes aim at Confederate attackers, July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg.
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Caption: Peter Frederick Rothermel devoted almost five years to his monumental 16 by 32 foot painting of The Battle of Gettysburg: Pickett's Charge (1870). This canvas and other smaller Rothermel paintings of the battle are on display at the State Museum of Pennsylvania.
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