They married in David’s senior year before he went into the Air Force, took pilot training, and served as an aide to General Keith Compton. There is no source that comes more highly recommended for readers interested in the Gettysburg battle, or the Civil War in general.Ībout the Editors: David and Audrey Ladd met at the University of New Hampshire. All letters are typeset for easy reading. They were transcribed, and originally published in a small run by Morningside Books in 1995. were in the New Hampshire Historical Society, where David and Audrey Ladd discovered them. His thousands of pages of reports, journal entries, notes, letters, etc. Most of the older monuments on the field today are where they are today thanks to his years of unceasing labor. Bachelder corresponded and met with hundreds of Union and also some Confederate soldiers, toured the field with many, and helped map where the units were on the field, and what they did there. Bachelder was a painter, lithographer, and photographer, but is best known as the historian of the Battle of Gettysburg and the key driving force behind preserving much of the Gettysburg battlefield.

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