GDG- One shot left...

[Batrinque at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/17/2007 11:24:30 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
kkamills at embarqmail.com writes:

Just  thinking from a photography standpoint, perhaps there really wasn't 
much to  capture and he found better subjects elsewhere on the battlefield that 
would  allow him to sell his photos, where the Angle and that field wouldn't?   
Perhaps the Union already cleared this area, in anticaption of an advance, so 
 by the time he arrived, there wasn't much for him to capture photographical 
in  nature?  




I think you are very probably correct -- Gardner and others would have  
photographed those areas with the greatest commercial (and perhaps artistic)  
potential, and it seems to me that the field in front of the Angle might have  been 
one of the first cleared by the Union troops (if you look at the Elliott  
Map, the Confederate bodies from in front of the stone wall at some point were  
moved and buried apparently in neat rows and columns down by the road).   
Still, we can wish that Gardner had taken a noncommercial photo or two for our  
future edification.
 
 
Bruce  Trinque
Amston, CT



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