Union General John Gibbon, who led a division at the Battle of Gettysburg related after seeing it: "I never before had an idea that the eye could be so deceived by paint and canvas. It was difficult to disabuse my mind of the impression that I was actually on the ground."
The Gettysburg Cyclorama wasn't the first of its kind. In the late 1800s there was a bit of a craze for cycloramas which represented a step forward from panoramas.
--Old Secesh
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