Very good condition wartime image of the Evergreen Cemetery Gatehouse located on the Baltimore Pike. Light scattered staining, some wear to orange colored mount.  Excellent contrast and detail to images.

Printing on front of mount reads, “PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY. THE WAR FOR THE UNION.”  Label on reverse reads, “WAR VIEWS. Cemetery Gate, Gettysburgh [sp]. No. 2388.  PUBLISHED BY E. & H. T. ANTHONY & CO., American and Foreign Emporium, 591 Broadway, New York.  Negative by M. B. Brady, New-York.”

Local Gettysburg resident Henry Chritzman and his brother George were responsible for the construction of the Evergreen Cemetery gatehouse, a well-known landmark in Gettysburg. The attractive brick Italianate style landmark was erected in 1855 and was designed by Stephen Button of Philadelphia.  At the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, the gatehouse was the home of Peter and Elizabeth Thorn.  After the battle subsided, during which fighting took place around the gatehouse and the building was used as a field hospital (damage from which is clearly visible in the photographs), Elizabeth, heavily pregnant and on her own due to her husband serving in the Union Army, personally dug 105 graves for the burial of dead soldiers.

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