Julius Friederici died on July 12 from a stomach wound he received a few weeks before at Gettysburg. He enlisted as a Sergant with the 119 New York Infantry less than a year before the battle at Gettysburg. A letter from a German friend is sent to his family in Germany, explaining what happened. Julius and his friend Otto were both fighting under General Kilpatrik at Richmond prior to Gettysburg. General Judson Kilpatrik was in Virginia June 1863, and at Gettysburg a few weeks later. General Kilpatrik ran a Calvalry, not an Infantry and was from Massachusettes. Julius had no wife or children when he died.
The news was flooded with the massacre at Gettysburg. This sent photographers (including Mathew Brady and Timothy O'Sullivan) to make this the most documented battle in the Civil war. Most of the documentation are of the few weeks after the battle, the wounded people and romantic landscape images (as Brady arrived too late to document anything else). Sullivan is believed to have moved some of the bodies in his photos for dramatic effect.