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.
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…
The photos on this site were mostly taken from 2005 through 2022, with some being more recent. 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. 🙂
Some of my work for the American Battlefield Trust
If you’re looking for me, I’m probably hiding behind a Nikon with a long lens. Or eating ice cream. Or maybe studying the Warren Map.
When I was eleven, my parents stopped on a whim in Gettysburg. The little ember that trip sparked for American history erupted into a full blown blaze after I watched the 1993 movie Gettysburg. Sure, the beards might have been a trifle bad, and sure, some of the history was stretched, but that was it! I wanted to know it all! Of course, now that I’m a little older, I know it is impossible to know it all and that’s in fact one of the draws to studying the battle — even after having made 100 trips to the battlefield, every time I visit, I always learn something new.
I am an amateur historian and photographer. I earned my BA in history and philosophy from Baldwin-Wallace College and my JD from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law where I was managing editor for the Cleveland State Law Review. I currently work as an an attorney at Jeffries Law, PLLC, a consumer law firm headquartered near Cleveland, 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. (You might say I’m a bit obsessed with green herons.) To see my nature photography (or more of my Gettysburg/Civil War work), please check out my SmugMug account, “Birds and Battlefields.”
Oh, and the important Gettysburg stuff everyone wants/needs to know:
1. My favorite book on the battle of Gettysburg is Harry Pfanz’s “Gettysburg the Second Day.” My favorite part of the battle to study is the Wheatfield.
2. My favorite monument is Bush-Brown’s equestrian of General Reynolds on the Chambersburg Pike.
3. My favorite Union general is Winfield Scott Hancock & my favorite Confederate general is A.P. Hill. Hancock because he’s Hancock. Thunderbolt of the Army of the Potomac. The Superb. Who doesn’t like Hancock?!? And A.P. Hill because he is the most complicated and enigmatic of Lee’s generals.
4. If you want to argue with me (remember, I am a lawyer! I argue for a living!), I am 100% on Meade’s side in the whole Sickles-Meade controversy.
5. Why did Lee lose at Gettysburg? That’s an easy one. George Pickett was right. Those pesky men in the Army of the Potomac had something to do with it.
My favorite spot on the battlefield. Gettysburg never fails to impress or inspire.
Thanks for visiting my website. I hope you enjoyed it. If you would like to get in touch with me, you can do that through the form on the Contact page.