Third Corps Living History on the Gettysburg Battlefield
In May of 2005 a contingent of ten Third Maine members joined men from other regiments portraying Third Corps units in a memorial march to the Gettysburg Battlefield and a National Park Service supervised weekend campaign-style living history encampment. Sixty-one men marched nine miles (in a steady rain) from Emmitsburg, Maryland, along the Emmitsburg road, taking the route marched by the original Third Corps as it arrived on the Battlefield on July 1, 1863. The Third Main men joined about 70 other living historians in public demonstrations and discussions of the Battle of Gettysburg and the part played by Third Corps regiments. They camped on the Battlefield, on Cemetary Ridge, near the Pennsylvania Monument.
The Third Maine men and colors. This is probably the first time since July 2, 1863, that the Third's colors flew over the Gettysburg Battlefield.
The men cook breakfast.		Sgt. Lawson's shelter on the Battlefield.

                    photos by Sam (Sally) Hall