John B. Bachelder
John Badger Bachelder | |
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John B. Bachelder and his wife Elizabeth at the Gettysburg battlefield in 1888. | |
| Born | September 29, 1825 |
| Died | December 22, 1894 (aged 69) |
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| Allegiance | United States of America Union |
| Branch | Union Army |
| Rank | Civilian combat artist |
| Conflicts | 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.