About

Welcome to This Deathless Field, a collection of photographs of, and information about, the over 1,000 monuments and memorials of the Gettysburg National Military Park and surrounding areas related to the Gettysburg Campaign.

Jen at A.P. Hill's HQ
Me at A.P. Hill’s headquarters monument, West Confederate Avenue. Photo taken by my dear friend who is dearly missed and without who’s help this site wouldn’t exist. I’ll see you at the top.

The website’s title comes from General Joshua Chamberlain who wrote:

In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls. And reverent men and women from afar, and generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream…

What constitutes a monument? What do you include and exclude? Good question. I’ve never found an OFFICIAL list of ALL the monuments at Gettysburg. Perhaps the NPS maintains such a list in its archives, but the best resources I’ve found which are available to the general public are the book, The location of the monuments, markers and tablets on the battlefield of Gettysburg, and the Smithsonian Institute’s Research Information System.

This project includes all the monuments, tablets, many of the battle related carvings, and memorials of the park, but originally excluded the regimental flank markers, although I am fairly certain they are listed in the official “count” of how many monuments there are. (In 2024, I decided to start collecting the flank markers so you’ll start seeing them slowly appearing and linked through my master monument list.) Monuments related to the Gettysburg Campaign, but located outside of the national military park proper (including the cavalry monuments at places like Fairfield and Cashtown, as well as monuments like the “Meade Rock” in Frederick) are sometimes included. If you disagree with my choices, you’re always free to start your own project and include whatever you want.

The photos on this site were mostly taken from 2005 through 2022. If you enjoy my work and like this website, the best way you can say “thank you” is by protecting Gettysburg to ensure the battlefield is here for future generations of Americans to learn from and enjoy. If you can afford to help through your wallet, please consider a donation to the American Battlefield Trust. The ABT helps protect all battlefield land, including Gettysburg where the Trust has saved critical battlefield land, preserving forever multiple parcels. Also if you become a member, you’ll get to occasionally see my images in the Trust’s award-winning magazine, Hallowed Ground. 🙂

If you can’t afford to donate, please write your member of Congress and let them know you strongly support leaving the Confederate monuments at Gettysburg in place as they are part of the history of the park and the historical landscape. Countless sacrifices and deaths occurred on the ground protected by GNMP; this is true hallowed ground, a place to reflect on the sacrifices of the fallen and the implications the Civil War has had on the United States. The Confederate monuments at Gettysburg speak to how we have remembered the Civil War over time and are of artistic merit. Their removal would constitute nothing more than the short-sighted destruction of irreplaceable works of American art and sculpture and the historical fabric of Gettysburg National Military Park.

Thank you for visiting my site, and I hope you enjoy this virtual tour of the Gettysburg battlefield!

Some of my work for the American Battlefield Trust

About Me

If you’re looking for me, I’m probably hiding behind a Nikon with a long lens. Or eating ice cream.

A family trip to the battlefield on a blazing hot and humid July day when I was eleven sparked my interest in Gettysburg (and the Civil War); that spark was ignited into a full blown blaze after I saw the 1993 movie Gettysburg. I have a BA in history and philosophy from Baldwin-Wallace College and a JD from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law where I was managing editor for the Cleveland State Law Review. I currently work as an attorney at Jeffries Law, PLLC, a multi-state consumer/lemon law firm headquartered in Ohio. In addition to photographing Civil War battlefields as a volunteer for the American Battlefield Trust, I have written a historical fiction novel about the invention of the heart-lung machine in the mid-1950s under my pen name, and I also enjoy nature and wildlife photography, particularly birds and especially green herons. To see my nature photography (or more of my Gettysburg/Civil War work), follow me on Instagram (@the_greenheron) or check out my SmugMug account.

My favorite spot on the battlefield. Gettysburg never fails to impress or inspire.

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