To mark the 150th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, TIME has published a richly illustrated 192-page book, Gettysburg: Turning Point of the Civil War. To buy a copy, go to time.com/gettysburgbook
Gettysburg: In the Footsteps of Mathew Brady
Photographer Todd Harrington revisited the sites shown in images originally captured by Mathew Brady and Timothy O'Sullivan to reveal how the setting of the Civil War's most important turning point has evolved in the past century and a half.
Timothy O’Sullivan / Library of Congress
1863: The gatehouse of Evergreen Cemetery
The gatehouse of Evergreen Cemetery, a private facility that gave
Cemetery Ridge its name, is one of the most striking original buildings still standing on the battlefield. It was near this spot that General Winfield Scott Hancock began to rally the Union troops who were retreating through the town of Gettysburg on July 1, and where the Union “fishhook” line began to form.