July 1863 photograph of the Lydia Leister house, General Meade's Headquarters along the Taneytown Road.
Notice the damage to the property including the stone row wall, the fencing, and the unfortunate horses.
Cemetery Ridge, The Copse of Trees, and The Angle are to your left just over
the ridge.
Cemetery Hill is further up Taneytown Road.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Courtesy of the US Library of Congress
A closer view of the Lydia Leister house, General Meade's Headquarters during
the Battle of Gettysburg
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Courtesy of the US Library of Congress