TIPTON STEREO VIEW OF COLONEL ELLIS MONUMENT AT GETTYSBURG

TIPTON STEREO VIEW OF COLONEL ELLIS MONUMENT AT GETTYSBURG

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This is a very nice 19th-century albumen stereo view by W.H. Tipton of Gettysburg showing the 124th New York Infantry monument, topped by a statue of Col. Augustus Van Horne Ellis, on Houck’s Ridge above Devil’s Den.

The card is a standard stereo card with two nearly identical photographs mounted side by side on a cream-yellow card with rounded corners. Seen through a stereoscope, they merge into a single three-dimensional image. The decorative printed sides read “Artistic Stereo Gems of Gettysburg Scenery” on the left and “Photographed by W. H. Tipton, Gettysburg, Pa.” on the right. The caption along the bottom edge reads: “842—Granite Statue of Col. Ellis (124th N.Y. Vol.) Mem. Park, near Devil’s Den.”

The photographs show the monument from the front, standing on a large rock outcrop. A granite figure of Ellis, arms folded, stands atop a pedestal marked “ELLIS.” Below it is a diamond, the badge of the Third Army Corps. The inscribed tablet is partly legible. It records that “the Orange Blossoms” went into action on this spot with about 18 officers and 220 men, and lost a substantial number of them killed and wounded. The base reads “124 Reg. N.Y.V. July 2, 1863.” The back is blank.

The 124th New York was raised in Orange County, New York, in 1862, which earned it the nickname “Orange Blossoms.” On July 2, 1863, the second day of Gettysburg, it fought in Ward’s brigade of Birney’s division, Third Corps, defending Houck’s Ridge above Devil’s Den against Confederate attacks from Hood’s division. Ellis led a counterattack down the slope and was killed, as was Maj. James Cromwell. The regiment suffered heavy losses but helped delay the Confederate advance in one of the battle’s most chaotic sectors. Before commanding the 124th, Ellis had served earlier in the war, including with the New York Fire Zouaves. The monument was dedicated in the mid-1880s. The caption’s reference to the “Memorial Park” points to the era when the battlefield was managed by the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association, before the federal government created Gettysburg National Military Park in 1895.

William H. Tipton (1850–1929) apprenticed with the Tyson brothers, who photographed Gettysburg soon after the battle. He became the town’s most prolific battlefield photographer, documenting monuments as veterans’ groups raised them through the 1880s and 1890s. [jet][ph:L]

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