Closeup Photograph of Lydia Leister's House,
Headquarters of Major General George G. Meade during the Battle of Gettysburg

Closeup showing damage to the fences and the house, as well as one of the dead horses in the street. (return to full photo)

Widow Leister complained that her only compensation was 50 cents per hundred pounds for the bones of the dead horses. See more on the Leister house at Gettysburg

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Civil War Photographs, LC-DIG-cwpb-0088