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Jim Fredlund Photography My photography is driven by a deep passion for history and a love for capturing the enduring beauty of America’s most iconic landmarks.

My focus has always been on American Civil War battlefields, national monuments, and historic covered bridges.

10/07/2026

On August 1, 2026, we take a simple drive through Mound City, Illinois, following Illinois Route 37 south through this small Ohio River community.
No particular destination and no complicated story—just a look at the streets, homes, businesses, and everyday landscape of Mound City on a summer afternoon. Like so many of these drives, the purpose is simply to document a place as it appears today.
A few minutes on the road. A small Southern Illinois town. A moment in time.

10/07/2026

A quiet passage across the southern end of the Gettysburg battlefield.
Beginning near the Pennsylvania State Memorial, this time-lapse follows Pleasonton Avenue toward Hancock Avenue beneath a heavy, overcast sky. Monuments, open fields, and distant landmarks pass through the frame as the landscape slowly unfolds.
More than 160 years after the battle, these fields remain remarkably open—allowing us to see many of the same distances and relationships across the ground that existed in July 1863.
Sometimes the battlefield is best experienced without explanation—just the road, the landscape, and the sky.

Still Water.
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Still Water.

Time.
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Time.

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Along West Confederate Avenue at Gettysburg stands a remarkable series of ten bronze tablets tracing the movements of the Army of Northern Virginia during the Gettysburg Campaign.

Placed by the War Department in the early 20th century, the tablets chronicle the army’s activities from June 26 through July 5, 1863—from the days preceding the Battle of Gettysburg through the fighting and the beginning of Lee’s retreat toward Virginia.

Unlike monuments dedicated to a particular regiment, commander, or moment in battle, these markers tell a broader story. Read together, they form a compact itinerary of an army on the move—recording where its corps and divisions traveled, fought, and ultimately withdrew during one of the defining campaigns of the Civil War.

Removed from the battlefield for a number of years, the ten tablets were returned to their location near the northern end of West Confederate Avenue in 2007.

Ten tablets. Ten days. A campaign written in bronze.

Calvary Cemetery of St. Patrick's Catholic Church - Cairo, Ill.
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Calvary Cemetery of St. Patrick's Catholic Church - Cairo, Ill.

10/06/2026

A quiet drive along Howard Avenue leads east toward Barlow’s Knoll, ground that became one of the critical points of the fighting north of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863.

Here, elements of the Union XI Corps formed a defensive line across the open countryside north of town. Brigadier General Francis Barlow advanced his division to the elevated ground then known as Blocher’s Knoll, creating a vulnerable position separated from the rest of the corps. Late in the afternoon, Confederate forces struck the position from the north and west, overwhelming Barlow’s line and helping trigger the collapse of the Union defenses north of Gettysburg.

Today, Howard Avenue follows this once-contested ground, lined with monuments marking the regiments that fought here before the road reaches the rise now remembered as Barlow’s Knoll.

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10/06/2026

🎉 Facebook recognized me as a top rising creator this week!

Thank you to everyone for your continued support.

10/05/2026

Some days along the Ohio River are simply quiet.

A short drive from 8th Street to 4th Street in Cairo, Illinois, beneath a heavy overcast sky. Barges move along the river, traffic comes and goes, and life carries on much as it has on this stretch of waterfront for generations.

No particular destination. No big story to tell. Just another day along the river.

10/05/2026

A drive west and then east along Cornfield Avenue, through ground that witnessed some of the most savage fighting at Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862.

Beginning shortly after dawn, Union and Confederate forces repeatedly swept through the Cornfield and the fields surrounding it. The Iron Brigade advanced through the corn early that morning, while Confederate forces under John Bell Hood later counterattacked across much of the same ground.

By 9:00 a.m., after only a few hours of fighting, the Cornfield had changed hands repeatedly and the casualties were staggering.

Today, Cornfield Avenue passes quietly through this landscape—allowing us to travel the ground in both directions and see a battlefield that, for several terrible hours, became the center of the fight.

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