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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.
Todd Harrington
2012: Woods near the Rose Farm
The cleft rock at right and the boulder poking into the frame on bottom left are clear indicators that Harrington’s modern-day photograph shows the same site where the Brady team photographed dead Confederate soldiers in the first days after the battle ceased.