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  • The Cyclorama, Battle of Atlanta and Gone with the Wind

    08/25/2014 4:04:23 PM PDT · by BigReb555 · 35 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | August 25, 2014 | Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.
    Do you remember Rhett Butler telling Miss Scarlett O’Hara? “Take a good look my dear. It's an historic moment you can tell your grandchildren about - how you watched the Old South fall one night.”
  • Gettysburg's Cyclorama Being Taken Apart

    02/18/2004 5:18:19 AM PST · by stainlessbanner · 21 replies · 876+ views
    wbal ^ | February 17, 2004
    GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- Two panels of the historic cyclorama painting in Gettysburg have been cut from the giant canvas. It was clearly a delicate operation as workers freed a section of the painting. It was slowly lowered to the ground. One wrong move and the panel could have torn and literally become pieces of history."I don't know if you heard my heart beating, but I was quite nervous and excited at the same time," said Elliot Gruber, with the Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum Foundation. Video Easy Does It The 120-year-old painting entitled "The Battle of Gettysburg" depicts the famous Confederate...