Image Size: 20 1/2" x 14 1/4"
250 Signed and Numbered Giclée Limited Edition Prints
50 Signed and Numbered Giclée Canvas Limited Edition Prints

The barn was built between 1812 and 1823 on one of the earliest farmsteads in the Gettysburg area. Edward McPherson, Chief Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, owned the farm at the time of the Civil War. On July 1, 1863 it would become “…the key point of the first day’s battle”, according to Major General Abner Doubleday, First Corps, Army of the Potomac. McPherson’s barn was used as a rallying defense for the men of Colonel Roy Stone’s Brigade of Pennsylvanians against Major General Henry Heth’s North Carolina and Mississippi infantry. It bore witness to the advance of the “Iron Brigade” of the First Corps against the 26th North Carolina, and the death of both commanders, Major General John Reynolds and the “Boy Colonel” Henry Burgwyn in the neighboring woods. Many of the wounded on that first day sought refuge and treatment in the barn’s interior. Many fell victim to the fight or wounds and began their eternal rest in the soil surrounding that stone barn.

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