STEREOVIEW OF GETTYSBURG HERO JOHN L. BURNS, “RECOVERING FROM HIS WOUNDS”

STEREOVIEW OF GETTYSBURG HERO JOHN L. BURNS, “RECOVERING FROM HIS WOUNDS”

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Captioned on the reverse as “John L. Burns, the old hero of Gettysburgh, recovering from his wounds”.  No. 2402 (handwritten in ink, with 2401 crossed out).  Published by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., American and Foreign Stereoscopic Emporium, 501 Broadway, New York ; negative by Brady & Co, Washington.  Published c. 1863-1872.  Overall good condition with some edge wear to the mount, age yellowing to photos.

Photograph shows the wounded 69-year old war hero John L. Burns seated in a rocking chair with his crutches and his rifle.

Burns was a veteran of the War of 1812 and a civilian citizen of Gettysburg when the battle erupted on July 1, 1863. After the preliminary skirmishing of the battle of Gettysburg began, Burns met a wounded Union soldier, borrowed his rifle and ammunition, with which he went to the front and offered his services as a volunteer to Maj. Chamberlain of the 155th Pennsylvania regiment. He was referred to the 7th Wisconsin volunteers nearby; they being sharply engaged with the enemy. The old man proved himself such a skillful sharpshooter that the colonel commanding the regiment sent him a favorite long-range rifle, which he used all day with deadly effect in the advanced line. Burns was however badly wounded in the afternoon, when the Union troops were forced back. He told a plausible story to his Confederate captors and got himself carried to his own house. His wounds were dressed by the surgeons and after a narrow escape from execution as an un-uniformed combatant, he was left when the Confederates were in turn driven back. The story of his patriotic zeal aroused the greatest interest in the northern states. He was lauded as the “Hero of Gettysburg”, and after the war, as his home was on the battlefield, became an object of curiosity of visitors.  [LD/stp] [ph:L]

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