Description: President Dwight D. Eisenhower invited Ohio Governor Michael DiSalle and other state governors attending a national conference of governors to visit his farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in July 1962. DiSalle is pictured along with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, California Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown and President Eisenhower. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03592
Subjects: Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969; DiSalle, Michael V. (Michael Vincent), 1908-1981; Ohio--Politics and government; Governors--Ohio
Places: Gettysburg (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Tintype portrait of an unidentified Union soldier and young woman that was found on the battlefield of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was found by John E. Ramsey of the 1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery H, in the rear of Cemetery Hill, immediately after a heavy artillery duel. Tintype is bent and scratched. An oval-shaped line around the man and woman indicates that the portrait may have been framed in an oval mat at one time. The tintype itself measures 8 x 7 cm, and is mounted on a board with a typed description that measures 11.5 x 7.5 cm. This photograph was included in "Over Here, Over There," an exhibit that opened at the Ohio History Center on July 1, 2011. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AP1426_01
Subjects: Photography--History; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Couples; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Places: Gettysburg (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Photograph of the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, taken by Mathew Brady on July 4, 1863, the day after the Battle of Gettysburg. The Union army, led by Major General George G. Meade, claimed victory over the Confederates, led by General Robert E. Lee, who withdrew from the battlefield on July 4. An estimated total of 51,000 casualties were suffered during this three-day battle, including the fallen soldiers seen here. The photographer, Mathew Brady, is well known for his documentation of the American Civil War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04541
Subjects: Battlefields; Photography--History; Civil War 1861-1865; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Soldiers
Places: Gettysburg (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: The image is a black and white print of a drawing by M. Leone Bracker depicts Abraham Lincoln reading his Gettysburg Address to the people of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The caption reads, “Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address by M. Leone Bracker. Created exclusively for and presented with the compliments of The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company.” View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F12_004
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works
 

Description: Modern photograph of a mill just south of Gettysburg, in Adams County, Pennsylvania, where fugitive slaves were concealed on their way to freedom in Canada. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03207
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Pennsylvania; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Gettysburg (Pennsylvania); Adams County (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Illustration captioned "Battle of Gettysburg, Thursday Evening, July 2nd, 1863, as seen from Rocky Hill on Meade's Left," from Frank Leslie's "Pictorial History of the American Civil War." The Union Army, led by Major General George G. Meade, claimed victory over the Confederates, led by General Robert E. Lee, who withdrew from the Gettysburg battlefield on July 4. An estimated total of 51,000 casualties were suffered during this three-day battle, making it one of the deadliest of the Civil War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04210
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Battlefields; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Places: Gettysburg (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Artistic rendering of the Battle of Gettysburg, from "The Pictorial History of the Great Civil War" by John Laird Wilson, 1878. The Union Army, led by Major General George G. Meade, claimed victory over the Confederates, led by General Robert E. Lee, who withdrew from the Gettysburg battlefield on July 4. An estimated total of 51,000 casualties were suffered during this three-day battle, making it one of the deadliest of the Civil War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04211
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Battlefields; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Places: Gettysburg (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Photograph of Thaddeus Stevens M. C. (1792-1868), who aided fugitive slaves in southeastern Pennsylvania and, as a practicing lawyer, often appeared in court for them. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03194
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Pennsylvania; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Gettysburg (Pennsylvania); Adams County (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: This photograph is a formal portrait of Harry J. Ritter, who represented Miami County in the 78th Ohio General Assembly House of Representatives (1909-1910). He was a member of the Republican Party. In this oval-framed portrait, Ritter is in his early sixties and has a mustache. He is wearing a pinstripe suit with a pin in the left lapel. Ritter was born in 1848 near Reading, Pennsylvania. He was a student at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, but left school in 1864 to join the United State Signal Corps. He served in that post until the end of the Civil War. After the war he graduated from a commercial college and entered the horse business. In 1894 he entered the manufacturing field and became general manager and treasurer of the Tipp Building Manufacturing Company, Tippecanoe City (now Tipp City), Ohio. He was elected to the 77th and 78th General Assemblies of the State of Ohio. In 1918 he was elected to the State Senate. Harry J. Ritter died in 1925 and was buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, Tipp City, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07018
Subjects: Legislators--Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Ohio General Assembly House of Representatives; Ohio General Assembly Senate; Miami County (Ohio); Politicians; Veterans
Places: Tipp City (Ohio); Miami County (Ohio)
 

Description: Carte de visite of General Winfield Scott Hancock, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. A native of Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania, Hancock was considered one of the best military commanders in the Union (nicknamed "Superb Hancock"), though he never rose above corps command. He is best known for his fighting at Gettysburg and Spotsylvania Court House, but also fought at Williamsburg, where he earned his nickname, Fredericksburg, the Wilderness, Chancellorsville, and Petersburg. Due to his wounds, and the self-criticism resulting from his only major defeat, at Petersburg, Hancock resigned from command, and took over in the now-quiet Shenandoah Valley. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f33_43
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military officers--Union; Military Ohio
Places: Ohio; Montgomery Square (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Carte de visite photograph of Major General George Meade, from the William T. Sherman Photograph Album, ca. 1865-1880. Meade was born on December 31, 1815, in Cadiz, Spain, where his father, a merchant, was serving as a naval agent with the United States government. Meade attended Mount Hope Institution in Baltimore, Maryland, before entering the United States Military School in 1821 and graduated 19th in a class of 56 cadets in 1835. His main interest was civil engineering, but after marrying, he found it difficult to find civilian jobs, so he returned the to the Army. He is best know for defeating Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. He died on November 6, 1872 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04341
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Military officers; Generals--United States
 

Description: Carte de visite of General Samuel Wylie Crawford, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Originally from Franklin County, Pennsylvania, Crawford began the war as the surgeon at Fort Sumter. Moving into military command, he fought at Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Gettysburg, and Five Forks. He is most often remembered for his actions at Gettysburg. He marched in support of Colonel Vincent on Little Round Top, but missed that part of the fighting. He arrived in time to help sweep Longstreet's troops out of the Valley of Death, an action which McCandless' brigade had already begun. Nevertheless, Crawford claimed that he was the "Savior of Little Round Top," and spent a great deal of time post-war attempting to convince everyone else of that fact. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f33_42
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military officers--Union
Places: Ohio; Franklin County (Pennsylvania)