First day's toll

Title: First day's toll
LC Subject: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Armed Forces Soldiers
Description: The lives laid down by the blue-clad soldiers in the first day's fighting made possible the ultimate victory at Gettysberg. All the way from McPherson's Woods back to Cemetery Hill lay the Federal soldiers who had contested every foot of that retreat until nightfall. The Confederates were massing so rapidly from the west and north that there was scant time to bring off the wounded and none for attention to the dead. There on the field lay the shoes so much needed by the Confederates and the grim task of gathering them began. The dead were stripped of arms, ammunition, caps and accoutrements as well--in fact of everything that would be of the slightest use in enabling Lee's poorly equipped army to continue the internecine strife. It was one of the War's awful expedients.
Work Type: lantern slides
Date: 1911/1940
Identifier: P217:40:18
Rights: In Copyright
Local Collection Name: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides, 1900-1940 (P 217)
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Primary Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Is Part Of: Set 61 - Civil War
Institution: Oregon State University