Dead Rebel sharpshooter at Gettysburg

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 · July 1863

From "War Memories" catalog: In their attempt to silence Hazlett's Battery, which was posted on the summit of Little Round Top, the Rebels pushed their sharpshooters up among the rocks at the foot of Round Top. It was a shot from one of these sharpshooters that mortally wounded General Weed, who was directing the movement of his troops from the summit of Round Top. Lieut. Hazlett, commanding the battery which was posted there, was an old schoolmate of General Weed. He hastened to the side of the dying General to take his last message, when he, too, fell dead, pierced by a ball from the dreaded sharpshooter. Then the guns of the battery were turned on the "Devil's den," as it was aptly called, and many of the sharpshooters were killed. This view shows one of them.