GETTYSBURG NATIONAL CEMETERY MAP BY JOHN BATCHELDER, ca. 1865

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Framed in heavy brown wood, 29 x 33.25, w/dark gilt interior trim, black card backing/ hang-wire. Interior map measures 16.75” 21.25 and is double matted in black. Rendered in black and white w/topographical contour lines. Frame exhibits light wear—map displays light rippling wrinkles. Else VG plus and quite impressive.

Map displays roads adjacent to the national cemetery—Taneytown, Emmetsburg Roads and Baltimore Pike. Also the National Orphans Home, Cemetery Hill and Evergreen Cemetery—plus the McKnight and Pfeiffer Houses and Stevens” Hill.  All  Soldier cemetery state cemetery plots labeled,  plus U.S. Regulars  and Unknown.

Col. John Badger Bachelder, the official historian of the Battle of Gettysburg, was born September 29, 1825 in Gilmanton, N.H. At the outbreak of the Civil War, in order to record the history of the major battles, Col. Bachelder planned to accompany the Army of the Potomac. This might have been arranged through Gen. Benjamin Butler, who was the uncle of Elizabeth Bachelder. Bachelder witnessed many of the eastern battles of the war, following along with his sketch pad and note book.

After the Battle of Gettysburg, which ran from July 1st through 3rd, 1863, he created an isometric map of the battlefield. This was a three dimensional rendering of the area. He visited field hospitals, interviewed wounded soldiers of both armies, and determined the position on his map of every unit engaged in the battle. During visits to the Army’s winter quarters, he interviewed the commanders of every regiment and battery in the Army of the Potomac. He went on to organize reunions on the field of veterans who identified exact locations of their units.

From 1883 to 1887, Col. Bachelder was the Superintendent of Tablets and Legends for the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association, and was responsible for the placement of monuments and battlefield markers, both Union and Confederate. In 1892, a monument designed by Bachelder, titled “The High Water Mark of the Rebellion”, was dedicated to mark the furthermost advance of the Confederate Army.

Magnificent Gettysburg collectible. Superb library wall piece.  [jp/L][PH:L]

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