The most interesting part of the Gettysburg experience was the 300+ foot mural created in the late 19th century by a Frenchman who came and painted this detailed description of Pickets Charge.
The mural hung in Boston for a long time until it was cut up and placed in crates, then forgotten.
It took years to reconstruct but this is the result.
It is more than 30 feet tall and the artists created the landscape to meet the painting so well that it is difficult to tell where the "real" ends and the painting begins. Everything in the immediate foreground is "real" then the painting blends into it.
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