John Badger Bachelder | |
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Born | Gilmanton, New Hampshire | September 29, 1825
Died | December 22, 1894 Hyde Park, Massachusetts | (aged 69)
Place of burial | |
Allegiance | United States of America Union |
Service | Union Army |
Rank | Civilian combat artist |
Battles / wars | American Civil War |
Other work | historian, portrait and landscape painter, lithographer, and photographer |
John Badger Bachelder (September 29, 1825 – December 22, 1894) was a portrait and landscape painter, lithographer, and photographer, but best known as the preeminent 19th-century historian of the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. He was a dominant factor in the preservation and memorialization of the Gettysburg Battlefield in the latter part of the century.