[Mobile Vulgus]

Well, I think the Post is wrong... how about you? Making a mountain out of a mole hill, here?

[P8riot]

Well if their pal Obama is elected, they’ll get a second chance to get their facts right. First hand.

[itsthejourney]

Whole lot of talk about a painting that wasn’t shown with the article.

[Hatteras]

IBSW!

[groanup]

ping

[BubbaBasher]

I remember seeing it on a grade school field trip 40 years ago. It seemed pretty cool at the time but obviously can’t compete with today’s multimedia extravaganzas. At 100 years old it is now a piece of history and should be respected for the accomplishment, it’s scope and it’s detail.

[Misschuck]

The Civil War is a fascinating time in history. It is a real shame that a neutered little nobody like this is able to have a national forum for his anger.

[tanknetter]

Philippoteaux's Battle of Gettysburg -- with its exploding caissons, agonized horses and chaotic disarray of charging soldiers -- is an occasionally dramatic but hardly great painting. In 1883, impressionism was in full flower, and Philippoteaux's compatriots -- Monet, Cézanne, Degas -- were revolutionizing painting.

I've never seen the Cyclorama, when I was up in Gettysburg in mid-August that portion of the new visitors center (which is phenominal) hadn't opened yet, so I'll reserve my opinion until I have a chance to put eyeballs on it.

However, the above is all I need to dismiss out-of-hand the author as just another elitest, Europhile a**.

[Alouette]

Mr. Kennicott, please go to Moscow and visit the Borodinskaya Bitva, and tell the Russians how much their painting sucks.

[Little Ray]

I have been to the Cylclorama a couple of times. Its worth the trip. It IS art and quite impressive.

[stainlessbanner]

Dixie-ping!

[SunkenCiv]

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[colorado tanker]

This guy seems to have a real problem with American history. Maybe it was a required subject and he flunked or hated his teacher?

Or maybe it's just that he hates it when historical facts contradict his editorials masquerading as news stories.

[BenLurkin]

“Cyclorama painting in the America’s quintessential Civil War town, Gettysburg, PA”

Old Ben still remembers visiting that(as a youngster) for the Centennial. It was VERY cool!

[3AngelaD]

You have to love it when people like this — and newspapers —are too busy picking 150-year-old scabs to notice what is happening today. This reminds me of the Inola Gay, when the Smithsonian allowed the Japanese to dictate the script for its exhibit, and got smacked down, but the Wash Post ran all these articles insisting we shouldn’t remember our history, that the Japanese had some valid points and the Japanese weren’t aggressive, etc, in other words, complete rewrite of Pearl Harbor casting us as the villains. The intellectual dishonesty of the Wash Post is breath-taking.

[Earthdweller]

Perfect commie nonsense. They want us to be ashamed at all that is American. They want us to have no pride in our accomplishments...no art, no honor. (I kid you not...this is a stated goal).