Join us as we welcome back Tom March who will show and narrate a highly detailed animation of the fighting on East Cavalry field on the afternoon of Day 3. Using the acclaimed Gettysburg Animated Battle Map APP you will see Jeb Stuart’s Confederate cavalry face off against David Gregg’s Union troopers. See how Stuart positions the brigades of Chambliss, then Fitzhugh Lee and finally Hampton, during the late morning thru early afternoon, just northwest of the Rummel Farm. Watching his every move are the Union brigades of Custer and McIntosh to the southeast, setting the stage for the famous fight a few hours later.
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Lydia Ziegler Clare Education Center
Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center
This Web-APP is sold for take-home, and free for SRM museum visitors to try out. It offers users the capability to examine animations of the entire 56-square mile battlefield, over the course of the battle from early morning on July 1st thru early evening July 3rd. Users of the APP can go anywhere on the battlefield, at any time during the three days, and view and examine anything. It’s your opportunity to view animations of the high-profile battle vignettes; Pickett’s Charge, The Wheatfield, Barlow’s Knoll, Herbst Woods; as well as lesser-known engagements such as Humphrey’s trek to Black Horse Tavern, Brinkerhoff Ridge, Neill Ave., and Longstreet’s Counter March.
Tom Marchesani (March) is an independent scholar of the battle of Gettysburg. A student of the Battle all of his life, he began this project in 2017. Now, after working over 7-years on the project, investing over 14,000 manhours, the last animation segments were completed in May 2023. There are over 400,000 moving parts and over 8,000 footnotes behind the scenes. Every military unit is shown. Infantry and cavalry regiments, and batteries are shown from the time they arrive on the battlefield’s outer boundaries until the end of Day 3’s fighting. Key infantry companies, skirmish lines; cavalry squadrons, as well as individual artillery guns and sections are depicted. We guarantee you’ve never seen a Battle animation like this one.