Pictured is a large sepia toned albumen photo taken July 3, 1888 on the Gettysburg battlefield by local photographer William H. Tipton. The image depicts is a group of survivors from the 40^th New York Infantry Regiment who are gathered around their stone monument in the Plum Run Valley of the battlefield.

The 40^th NY, also called the ‘Mozart Regiment’, was organized and mustered into service on June 27, 1861 at Yonkers, New York and became part of the 3^rd Brigade, 1^st Division of the 3^rd Army Corps. The regiment’s name derives from one of its early sponsors, the Mozart Hall Committee of the state. Critical to the defense of the Union left flank on July 2, 1863, the 40^th NY fought a delaying action against General Evander Law’s Confederate division pushing toward Little Round Top. On the battlefield, these men of the ‘Mozart Regiment’ charged down Plum Run in the Valley of Death seven separate times toward the rebels secured in the huge boulders of Devil’s Den and the Slaughter Pen.

The photograph is glued to a large piece of pasteboard backing (13½” x 14”) and appears to have been cut down to 9” high x 13½” wide. Tipton took the photo on July 2, 1888, the day the monument was dedicated by the State of New York. The image location was directly in front of the 40^th NY monument near the intersection of Crawford Ave and Warren Ave. Thirty-nine individuals, 38 men and 1 woman, flank the 40^th NY’s granite stone monument on the field and are depicted seated and standing with some holding flags and a veteran association banner for the Mozart regiment. The monument stands just over six feet high and shows a soldier crouching concealed behind rocks. Also partially visible in the photo is the roof of William Tipton’s photographic field studio at the wood line to the left. At the far right of the image can be seen the lower boulders at the start of Little Round Top. A fine image of representatives from the hard fought 40^th New York at their granite monument on the battlefield of Gettysburg.

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