This image is of the memorial at Gettysburg Battlefield to the Massachusett's 11th Voluntary Infantry. It is at the intersection of Sickles Avenue and Emmitsburg Road. Known as the "Boston Volunteers", these soldiers became hardened at Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. Then came...
I cannot resist cemeteries. This image was taken in Mt. Pleasant cemetery, located near Howard, NY. Rural community burial grounds are for the most part quite modest in design and type of grave markers. But as often as not, there is something deep and personal left in tribute to someone who...