MYSTERY: What has this been?

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CLUE: Look how much the covering of this building has changed color and aged over the years. Now can you tell us what this building has been used for, and where it is located? Send your ideas to elliottt@brack.net and be sure to include your address.

Apparently several of our readers have been the Gettysburg Battlefield, as we got lots of people recognizing the Mystery Photo in the last edition, sent in by Scott LeCraw of Suwanee. It was the statue of Gouverneur (his name, not a title) Kemble Warren on Little Round Top in Gettysburg National Battlefield. Rick Edinger of Lawrenceville was first with the identification.

Also recognizing it were Ross Lenhart, Pawley’s Island, S.C.; Karen Garner, Dacula; and James D’Angelo of Lawrenceville, who should have recognized it, as he said: “As a graduate of Gettysburg College, this is an easy one.  Although not known by this name at the time, this is Little Round Top and that is ‘the hero of Little Round Top,’ Brig. Gen Gouveneur K. Warren, who had the foresight to initiate the defense of the outcrop, recognizing the importance of the undefended position on the left flank of the Union Army,   He was promoted to Major General following the battle. The outcrop was a northern extension of Round Top Mountain.  Another outcrop associated with both was Devil’s Den.”

Richard Lux of Trickum tells us that “The monument to Brigadier General Gouverneur Kemble Warren was erected in 1888 by veterans of the Fifth New York Infantry Regiment, which was Warren’s first command during the war.” Bob Foreman of Grayson added that it was a “beautiful, peaceful, quiet place, where 51,000 soldiers died.”

Also recognizing the site were Ruthy Lachman Paul, Norcross; and Harriet Nichols of Trickum.

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