Dolls & Magic

I took this photo my second time visiting Gettysburg. I was alone. I had just got there, had one of those little IZONE cameras, which were new at that time. Just pulled off the road, anywhere, tired, took my little camera out of the packet & decided to try it. Nobody was around. At that time, I didn't have the slightest idea that this was actually General Meade's headquarters, shelled, during the war. It has been mended. When I took the picture, because, you get the pictures instantly, and they are tiny, of course, I noticed the figure in blue there. I thought it was wyrd, because, like I've said, nobody was there when I took the picture. In fact, it was way off season at the time, and nobody was around at all. That's why I didn't even know that it was any place special till later. I've kept this photo all these years, meaning to scan it for a better look. Being the first picture ever even taken with this camera, originally, I thought it may be a smear or something, but none of the other pictures that I took with it had any other sorts of abnormalities. You can think what you like, but I think it's a ghost, and a Yankee at that. I've seen them looking solid like this in The Wilderness, but like I've said, I did not see this fellow when I took this picture. I think he must want to be seen, so here he is. He looks like he has something in his hand. You can't mistake him, right along the fence. This is not a real person. He was not really there. Well, I guess, he's always there now.