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Council NEWS from • for • and ABOUT YOUR ASSOCIATION $25 Photo by John Armstrong ASSOCIATION OF LICENSED BATTLEFIELD GUIDES GETTYSBURG, PA Association of Licensed Battlefield Vol. 38 No. 2 April 2020 Guides Battle!eld Dispatch 717•337•1709 “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we The ALBG was founded in 1916 as the official organization to represent must live through all time, or die by suicide.” – Abraham Lincoln, The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions: Lincoln’s address to the and promote licensed guiding at Gettysburg. Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838 Interested individuals who do not hold The guide licenses may join the ALBG as Asso- contributed by LBG Therese Orr ciate members by submitting annual dues of Council NEWS FROM • FOR • AND ABOUT YOUR ASSOCIATION $25. Membership includes a subscription to the Battlefield Dispatch and covers the fiscal DURING THE PAST It will be dependent upon PENNDOT allowing us to year July 1– June 30. MONTH, as we have work along the road. changed our lives due EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OUR GUIDE COLLEAGUE ERIC LINDBLADE has established a to the coronavirus, , , TERM ENDING IN 2020 – LBGs your Executive Coun- GoFundMe account to provide assistance to any Guides Rob Abbott • Chuck Burkell who need some funds during this work stoppage. Some folks •Deb Novotny • Therese Orr cil has met twice, via TERM ENDING IN 2021 – LBGs conference call, to continue indicated a desire to donate to help Guides, and Eric created John Baniszewski • Jim Cooke the fundraising account on his own. If you wish to donate to • Eric Lindblade • Jessie Wheedleton our work. Some of the issues TERM ENDING IN 2022 – LBGs we have worked on include: the fund, visit: Les Fowler • Jim Hessler •Mary Turk-Meena • Gary Vezza • Cancellation of month- https://www.gofundme.com/f/licensed-battlefield-guide- assistance-fund ly Continuing Educa- ALBG Battlefield Dispatch tion for the foreseeable If you are in need of monetary assistance, please contact c/o ALBG, Inc. Eric at: [email protected] or 252-725-0451 PO Box 4152 future Gettysburg, PA 17325-4152 • Cancellation of the Distributions from the fund will be made without any Newsletter .... Dave Joswick (ALBG) Visiting Scholar’s Ban- need for explanation or justification by the requestor. Mem- [email protected] quet for 2020 bership in the ALBG is NOT a requirement for assistance. [email protected] Please spread the word among our colleagues. The Battlefield Dispatch is the official com- • Postponement of the munication of the Association of Licensed Battlefield Guides, published bimonthly in THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL is establishing a working group to con- Spring Seminar to February, April, June, August, October, and October 23/24. We also sider issues impacting all Guides related to the COVID-19 December. discussed what adapta- pandemic. This working group would be made up of 6-8 Material for potential publication should be forwarded to the editor via e-mail or tions we will need to Guides (both ALBG and non-ALBG members) representing standard mail to the addresses listed above. make to ensure that all Guide categories and tour types to the extent possible. Submission deadline is the 5th day of the month of the publication. All items pub- we are complying with The working group would be expected to make recommenda- lished will be credited with byline. Articles future COVID-19 regu- tions to all Guides, and when appropriate, to the National without byline are the editor’s work. lations. Park Service and the Gettysburg Foundation on: © 2020 by ALBG, Inc. • All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be used or • Consideration of how • Best practices for LBGs giving car tours, bus tours and reproduced without the prior written permis- we will present our group presentations in light of applicable COVID-19 sion of the publisher. Tuesday Walks, which guidelines issued by the Commonwealth of Pennsylva- begin on June 2. Again, nia and the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) LegaL Notice The Association of Licensed Battlefield we will have to ensure • Annual license fees and annual tour minimum require- Guides (ALBG) website and the written that we are comply- newsletter known as the Battlefield Dis- ments patch are the only official communication ing with COVID-19 vehicles of the Association of Licensed regulations. • Communications about practices in place to protect the Battlefield Guides. safety of visitors and Guides on the battlefield Any officially sanctioned document, • Suspension of ALBG publication, class material, class schedule, • Creative ideas for providing tours while adhering to field presentation schedules and commu- phone reservations nications—public and private—contained until Guiding is open social distancing and other related recommendations in these communication vehicles are copy- and guidelines. righted for the exclusive use of the ALBG again. and its members. Any unauthorized use of An email will be sent to all Guides requesting participa- said materials for any reason without the • Cancellation of the specific written permission of the Execu- tion on the working group. Guides are also asked to forward tive Council of the Association of Licensed April Emmitsburg Road Battlefield Guides is strictly prohibited. trash clean-up work concerns and recommendations to this working group. Please party. June 24 is the look for further communication on this project. Don’t forget to like next scheduled date. ALBG on Facebook! 2 Battlefield Dispatch Contributed by LBG Fred Hawthorne n the February issue of the Battlefield Dispatch (Volume 38, EARLIEST PHOENIX ORDNANCE RIFLE Number 1) I detailed the updatingODDITIES of my 1984-1986 AND artillery UNUSUAL The earliest PIECES Phoenix Ordnance rifle in the Park’s collec- tube inventory as well as some background on how these tubes tion is tube No. 5. It is located on Seminary Avenue at the have been dealt with in the past. Since that time a further check position of Smith’s 3rd Richmond Howitzers. As I have been found three additional positions where tubes have been removed recently reminded by LBG Rich Kohr, Ordnance Rifle No. 1 presumably for carriage restoration (two Napoleons of Richardson’s also exists in the town but is privately owned and not regu- Battery, Washington Artillery and one Gilbert Reproduction Par- larly on public display. rott of Marye’s Fredericksburg Artillery). LBG Stuart Dempsey also reminded me that the southernmost piece marking Bucklyn’s THE RARE “HUBARD HOWITZER” Battery E, 1st Rhode Island had been hit and demolished by a car An extremely a number of years back possibly explaining the start of the events rare piece is that led to the swapping of pieces between Bucklyn’s and Ames’ a 12-Pounder Batteries. Also, in conversation with colleagues, I mentioned that Howitzer lo- the original artillery tubes utilized to mark fourteen corps and army cated in Po- headquarters are not included in the inventory nor have they ever ague’s position been to my knowledge. I believe the distinction is that they were near the Vir- used to create a unique memorial—a headquarters marker—and ginia Memorial. not to serve as a specific “Artillery Piece” on the field marking a It was produced battery position. by British born So, as of March 2020 the updated list would be: artist/sculptor/ • 371 artillery tubes are present and in position on the field. scientist/entre- preneur William • 316 of these are actual Civil War tubes (including “Fake James Hubard (1807-1862). One of his works—a statue of Napoleons”). That is 85% of the on-field collection. George Washington—is at VMI today. Hubard established • 55 of the tubes are Gilbert Company reproduction rifles. a bronze foundry in Richmond in 1853 which he named This still represents 15% of the collection. “Washington Foundry.” Its expressed purpose was making • 39 positions are currently without tubes. copies of Jean-Antoine Houdon’s “George Washington” such as the one now residing at VMI. With the coming of With the start of warmer weather and harder ground we should the war Hubard accepted a contract from Virginia to use his expect the Park’s Cannon Shop to resume placement and removal foundry to produce ten howitzers for the contracted price of of additional pieces so this number will fluctuate. sixty cents per pound. However, he only had the capability • of creating the rough casting. It was then bored, turned and finished at the nearby machine shop of Thomas Samson and art II of my article deals with what I call Oddities and James Pae in Richmond. Hubard however was a short-lived Unusual Pieces. During the course of searching for specific gun founder in that he was killed February 15, 1862 while identification markings I found some quirky and unusual experimenting with gunpowder. This rare piece is specifically things likely only of interest to me. But for those amongst marked “State of Virginia” on the right trunnion. you who love trivia and like to stump unsuspecting friends, here goes: THE GRAND-DADDY OF ALL TUBES ON THE FIELD The oldest dated gun on the battlefield is a howitzer located AN EXCEPTION TO THE “RULE” OF ARTILLERY PLACEMENT at Carlton’s Troup artillery position (2nd Section). It is a Every battery position on the battlefield, save one, has guns Model of 1835 12-Pounder Howitzer #6 manufactured in of the type the battery was equipped with during the battle. 1837 by Cyrus Alger and Company in Boston. For those The lone exception is Carrington’s Charlottesville Artillery guides who revel in trivia what is the “youngest” piece? Well on Jones Battalion Avenue.
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