Reminiscences of Gettysburg

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          Mr. Brady, the photographer, to whose industry and energy we are indebted for many of the most reliable pictures of the war, has been to the Gettysburg battle-field, and executed a number of photographs of what he saw there. We reproduce some of these pictures above.

          One of then shows us the old man John burns, the only citizen of Gettysburg who shouldered his rifle and went out to do battle in the Union ranks against the enemies of his country. The old man made his appearance in a uniform which he had worn in the last war, but he fought as stoutly as any young man in the army. Honor to his name! Old Burn's house is there too, a memorial in its way of the fight: from its condition it looks as though it would not be very likely to remain many years as an object of curiosity.

          Other pictures are the head-quarters of General Lee and General Meade near the battle-field; modest, unpretending farm-houses in themselves, but destined hereafter to be as famous and as great and object of curiosity to travelers as the barn and mill at Waterloo. Elsewhere we see the rough breast-works thrown up in the woods behind which the troops crouched to repel the enemy's charges, with the trees above and around them scarred and furrowed every where by round shot, shell and rifle-ball.

          The large View of Gettysburg from the West will give the beholder a general idea of the field of battle -- a great valley well adapted for the movements of infantry and artillery. Mountains in the back-ground explain why the cavalry could not pursue very far. We have details as well. There is the Gate of the Cemetery, which was the scene of more than one fierce conflict, and where hundreds of Union men and rebels fell side by side; The College, which our troops uses as a hospital after the battle; the Wheat-field in which General Reynolds was shot, and the Barn to which he was carried, and where he breathed his last moments, etc.

          Coupled with these interesting pictures we give, an illustration of t he Crossing of the Rappahannock by the Advance of the Twelfth Army Corps in Pursuit of Lee. Intelligence of this movement is contraband, and the author of our sketch warns us to be careful to disclose no facts which may be useful to the enemy. We therefore let the picture speak for itself.

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