Scene of the charge of the Louisiana Tigers. View taken from Cemetery Hill at about position of right gun of Wiedrich's (i. e. Weidrich's) Battery

Photo shows the site where confederate infantry commanded by Brigadier General H.S. Hays (the Louisiana Tigers) charged against Union batteries on Cemetery Hill on the evening of July 2nd and broke through the Northern defensive line before a Union counterattack pushed them back. The German Reformed Church is in background. (Source: Frassanito, p. 100)
Photo is the left half of a two-part panorama by an unidentified photographer. The right half is at the National Archives. (Source: Frassanito, p. 101)

Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Published in: Gettysburg: A Journey in Time, by William A. Frassanito, 1975, p. 100-102.