The eloquence of the mute witnesses

Plate 36 A Har­vest of Death. Get­tys­burg, Penn­syl­va­nia. July 1863 Pho­tographed by Tim­o­thy H. O’Sullivan Slowly, over the misty fields of Gettysburg—as all reluc­tant to expose their ghastly hor­rors to the light—came the sun­less morn, after the retreat by Lee’s bro­ken army. Through the shad­owy vapors, it was, indeed, a “har­vest of death” that was […]