‘Battle Of Gettysburg’
World Famous Painting
One of the greatest battle pic-
tures of the world occupies a pro-
minent place in the State Museum.
The work of a native Pennsyl-
vanian painted in 1868, Peter F.
Rothermel’s colossal canvas, “The
Battle of Gettysburg,” completed
only five years after the close of
the battle on July 3, 1863, ranks
with the works of Salvador Rosa,
Leonardo da Vinci and Michaelan-
gelo.”
Only two larger battle scenes
were ever painted, and of these da
Vinci's masterpiece is lost, though
some of the details in the form of
colossal fragments exist in Italian
museums and at the Louvre in
Paris.
Probably no American military
painting of its kind has such wide
appeal, excepting the tragic canvas
showing General Custer’s Last
Stand and Washington Crossing
The Delaware both of which have
been widely copied and reproduced.
Most of the heroes of Gettys-
burg were living when Rothermel
painted his immortal scene, one
sees in the foreground Generals
Meade, Hancock and Sickles, and
the Confederate leaders, Lee,
Pickett and Jeb Stuart can be easi-
ly recognized.
The vast canvas depicts the stir-
ring moment of Pickett’s Charge
when the God of War held the fate
of the World balanced for a mo-
ment, then the break and crash
and terrific roar which ended the
advance at a solid Pennsylvania
Dutch stone-row.
To get this local color Rothermel
went to work for a farmer on the
former battlefield, and from his
employer and neighbors a first-
hand picture was transferred to his
mind clearer than any photogra-
phic likeness. He heard how it all
looked before the battle, during it
and after it. From these eyewit-
ness descriptions he added his own
visual impressions, and made a
canvas that will ‘survive time.
Some of the faces of the dead and
dying wear an exalted look, be it
for the stars and stripes or the
stars and bars.
Perhaps the most poignant face
of all is the dying ‘drummer girl”
who disguised as a boy to be near
‘her soldier lover, expired the mo-
ment Pickett’'s Charge began, her
blonde beauty recovered from de-
scriptions by her relatives, a lock
of her fair hair, and daguerreotypes
and pencil sketches of her loveli-
ness.
One of Rothermel’s relatives,
who visited his great painting last
year said:
This drummer girl was his fav-
orite figure, and ‘he painted her
with a sort of loving exaltation,
that her fair face and brave deeds
might live.
Born in Luzerne County of good
old Pennsylvania Dutch stock in
1816, Peter Frederick Rothermel
was destined to be a farmer, later
a sign painter but once on a rainy
afternoon when rummaging in the
parental attic he came across an
old leather-bound volume of the
17th Century, brought to Pennsly-
vania by his ancestors,showing a
woodcut of “Wiliam The Silent’s
famous Relief of Leyden and he
said to his little brothers and
sisters grouped around him, “I will
make a picture like that,” and
this inspired moment was the birth
of ‘The Battle of Gettysburg.’ He
took the book to his room, and
kept it propped open on his night
table. ;
It was a tremendous task to
finance the painting and to do it
Rothermel taught painting and pro-
duced some portraits and land-
scapes even advertising signs, acted
as a night clerk in a hotel, a watch-
man at a steel plant, but he fin-
ished his picture and started ex-
hibiting it for a small fee, like
the larger and later panorama of
Gettysburg long on view at Get-
tysburg.
His travels with the painting
took him as far west as Chicago,
where in 1871 a young soldier cut
it from its frame while the Great
Fire was raging outside and carried
it to a place of safety. Five years
later it was a sensation of the
Philadelphia Centennial, and later
was placed in Independence Hall
where southern delegations ob-
jected to its exhibition in a non-
sectional, national shrine. Gov-
ernor John F. Hartranft whose
equestrian statue, outside the State
Museum, seems to stand guard over
; the painting which during his Ad-
ministration and later he tried
hard to have the Commonwealth
acquire it.
Finally with the projected open-
ing of the State Museum the State
purchased it through Governor
Robert E. Pattison’s insistence
with the proviso that it first be dis-
played at the Chicago World's Fair
in 1893, where it was instantly ac-
claimed and won the praise of
many foreign art critics. Early in
1894 it was hung in its present
position in the Museum's Trophy
Room where it is a central figure
among the panoply of Pennsyl-
vania’s flags in all wars, dedicated
in the presence of the Artist him-
self, Governor Pattison, U. S. Sen-
ators J. D. Cameron and Quay,
General Daniel E. Sickles ‘The Hero
of Gettysburg,” General C., H. T.
_ Church News
DALLAS CHURCH
The International Sunday School
lesson for next Sunday introduces
a unit of study on the family and
the neighborhood. The lesson is
based on the first chapter of Sec-
ond Timothy and the fifth and
sixth chapters of Ephesians. The
Brace, Brickel, and Franklin Bible
Classes use graded and special in-
terest courses. The entire Sunday
School continues to meet all sum-
mer at ten o'clock with classes for
all ages from three years and
above.
The Reverend Howard F, Goer-
inger, Executive Secretary of the
Wyoming Valley Council of
Churches, will be the guest preach-
er on Sunday Morning in the Wor-
ship Service at eleven o’clock. Mr.
Goeringer, a native of the Wyom-
ing Valley, has recently returned
to the valley from a long and dis-
tinguished pastorate at Reading,
Pennsylvania to direct the activi-
ties of the Wyoming Council of
Churches. Mr..Goeringer is an out-
standing church leader with a vital
and interesting message and should
be heard by a capacity congrega-
tion. Special music will be pre-
sented by a guest soloist and by
the organist, Mrs. Ruth Turn Reyn-
olds.
All boys and girls are especially
invited to participate in the all-
church recreational night on Tues-
day evening at the Dallas Town-
ship High School athletic field.
Men and women are also invited to’
participate. Soft ball will ;be
played.
Those desiring to contact the
minister during his vacation are to
call the parsonage or Mr. Clark S.
Hildebrant, Dallas 271-R-3.
Mrs. Ray Shiber Resigns
From Hospital Board
Mrs. Ray Shiber, Center Hill
road, entertained Board Members
of the Nesbitt Memorial Hospital
Auxiliary at a garden party on
Friday.
Mrs. Shiber has been first vice-
president of the Board for a num-
ber of years. Upon her resigna-
tion, the Board presented her with
a piece of sterling silver,
Collis’s Zouaves, General D, H.
Hastings, Grand Army leaders, and
a notable concourse of citizens.
Two years later, Rothermel died
in his 79th year, his great life's
mission completed.
Beloved by the Nation, Roth-
ermel’s grand ‘canvas of one of
the World’s greatest and most de-
cisive battles will always stand as
supreme landmark in Pennsylvania
Folklore and history.
jr
- PROMOTE
LEON
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A Man of Human Understanding with the Common Touch
TO JUDGE OF THE
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Republican and Democratic Ballots
THE JUDICIAL NATURE OF THE OFFICE OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND
THE THOUSANDS OF COMPLEX DOMESTIC AND OTHER CASES HE
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ROY E. MORGAN
Chairman
LEON F. ROKOSZ
Treasurer
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