Rothermel's "Battle ofGettysburg: Pickett's Charge, " which measures 16 feet high and 32 feet wide, and is the largest depiction of the battle on one canvas.
Lee's army was on the march north to the fateful battleofGettysburg, President Lincoln wrote a letter commenting on the arrest of a leading Confederate sympathizer legislator (or "Copperheads" as they were then known), U.S. Rep. Clement L. Valladigham (Democrat of Ohio).