VERY RARE CDV-GETTYSBURG "CHILDREN OF THE BATTLEFIELD
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This has to rate right up near the top of famous photographs from the Civil War. It is a CDV image of three young children. It has the backmark of "F. Gutekunst, Photographer / 704 & 706 Arch St. Philadelphia". This photograph is of the children of Sergeant Amos Humiston. He was the only enlisted man at Gettysburg who has his own monument on the battlefield (see pictures). It wasn't because of his heroism in the battle. A Union sergeant in New York 's 154th "Hardtack" regiment, Humiston was killed on the first day of fighting in Gettysburg , after Confederate troops overwhelmed his company at a spot known as Kuhn's Brickyard. What earned him a permanent marker was his love for Frank, Freddie and Alice. Humiston was just one of more than 3,000 Union soldiers who died in the monumental three-day conflict. But when his body was found later that week, lying in a secluded spot at York and Stratton streets in Gettysburg, he was holding an ambrotype (an early kind of photograph), and on it were the serious, round faces of his three adored children: 8-year-old Frank, 6-year-old Alice and 4-year-old Freddie. Somehow, historians believe, Amos Humiston had managed to drag himself to this patch of ground after he had been wounded, and was probably looking at his children's faces when he died. Even then, Humiston might have faded into obscurity,
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