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EDITOR’S NOTE: IN MEMORIAM If you received this issue of the Harry Dorsey BCWRT Newsletter in the mail, 12/9/43 – 8/29/07 please check the mailing label on On August 29, 2007, the Civil War Roundtable’s long-serving the outside page. If there is a RED Treasurer passed away. Harry Dorsey had been active in the BCWRT almost X you will continue to receive a since the group’s inception. His dedication and interest helped to make the copy of the monthly newsletter via Roundtable what it is today. On behalf of the members of the Baltimore Civil War Roundtable, The Board of Directors and I offer deep condolences to Harry’s the US Postal Service. If there is family. He will be missed. no RED X, next month’s He is survived by his wife Ruth and his brother Joe Dorsey. newsletter will be the last one you will receive in the mail. Please resembling their appearance when exist at the time of the battle, and notify me if you wish to continue they were the scenes of bloody replant 115 acres of trees that were struggles between the forces of North there but have since disappeared. to receive the newsletter via and South. "If you can think of an This year, work is focusing on USPS. I can be reached by mail at historic landscape the same way that clearing out trees around Devil's Den, 17 Fusting Ave, 1W, Catonsville, we're used to thinking of historic a rocky outcropping that saw bitter MD 21228 or by phone at 410- structures, the whole reason for doing fighting, and along a section of the 788-3525. this follows suit," said John Latschar , Confederate line on . superintendent of the 6,000-acre In the course of the project, foresters National Military Park. "It's are working to preserve "witness" Gettysburg undergoes as important at Gettysburg as not trees, which were present on the major renovation adding stucco to Independence Hall." gently rolling hills when By Stevenson Swanson, At the heart of these rehabilitation the forces of Confederate Gen. Tribune, September 2, 2007 projects is a task that would seem an Robert E. Lee and Union commander GETTYSBURG, Pa. - Stacks of odd undertaking for the National Park Gen. collided. recently cut tree trunks wait to be Service, which administers many of The ambitious plan also calls for hauled away from the area around the battlefields: cutting down rehabilitating or reconstructing nearly Devil's Den. A modern building on hundreds of acres of trees. 10 miles of historic farm lanes and that sits close to the In the 142 years since the war's end, roads and restoring 39 miles of scene of Pickett's Charge stands fields that were once farmed have fences, hedgerows and other field empty, facing demolition. On another fallen fallow, allowing trees to grow boundaries. And one of the most part of the battlefield, construction and obscure what were clear lines of pervasive anachronisms on the workers are building a large structure fire in 1863. At Gettysburg, where battlefield--overhead power lines--are shaped like a round barn. Civil War cannon are placed in the being buried. With an estimated $131 million in locations that artillery occupied during Similar but smaller efforts have been projects under way, the fields and the battle, that has given rise to some undertaken at many other Civil War farms around this small town in odd juxtapositions. battlefields, including Antietam in southern Pennsylvania probably "We had batteries of artillery pointing Maryland, Chancellorsville and the haven't seen this much sustained straight into mature stands of trees," Wilderness in Virginia, Chickamauga activity since the three crucial days in said Gettysburg spokeswoman Katie in Georgia and Vicksburg in July 1863 when 165,000 Union and Lawhon. "And over the years, we had Mississippi. Confederate troops clashed here in lost a lot of fences. At Gettysburg, a "It's much more difficult to explain the what is widely considered the turning fence could be the difference events that occurred on these point of the Civil War. between life and death." Under a battlefields if they don't look like they Gettysburg is at the forefront of an 1999 restoration plan, the park did during the Civil War," said Jim effort to restore many Civil War service will cut down 576 acres of Campi of the Civil War Preservation battlefields to something more closely woodland at Gettysburg that did not Trust, a non-profit group that works to

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THE “OLD LINER” NEWSLETTER preserve Civil War battlefields. "If On such a historic site, controversy is on the Civil War Preservation Trust's people can't see what decision- almost bound to accompany any list of the top 10 endangered Civil makers could see, they can't grasp change. A group of architectural War sites earlier this year because of what happened." But the park service preservationists has sued the park what's happening outside the and the non-profit Gettysburg service over its plans to demolish the battlefield's boundaries. Housing Foundation, which is raising $125 building that used to house the development is threatening the million toward the project's overall , a striking 1962 concrete region's rural character as more cost, are doing more than restoring structure designed by famed people move to the area who the landscape at Gettysburg. Modernist architect Richard Neutra. commute to Baltimore or Washington. A new $103 million museum and The building is on the National Saving survivors from visitors center, designed to resemble Register of Historic Places. a Pennsylvania farm to help it blend "It's too important a structure to the field of battle at into the historic landscape, is under demolish and just throw away," said Gettysburg construction to replace the park Christine Madrid French, president of CWi, August 12, 2007 service's cramped and outdated the Recent Past Preservation The field desk looked as if it had been facility, which sits across the road Network, the Arlington, Va., group cobbled together without much from the national cemetery where that filed suit, charging that the park thought of making it attractive. It was Abraham Lincoln delivered the service did not study alternatives strictly functional and probably would later in 1863. such as moving the building. "The not draw much attention at an antique The new building, which will open in building has a lot of life left in it, and a shop. But at the Harpers Ferry April, will contain more extensive and lot to give to people in terms of conservation lab for the National Park updated exhibits, telling the story of helping them understand the Service, it was treated as a treasured the battle from the standpoint of the architecture of the time." But park icon: It had belonged to Gen. Robert commanders, the common soldiers, service officials say the Neutra E. Lee and was most likely used at the citizens of Gettysburg and the war building never functioned well, citing the . correspondents who covered the a leaky roof and inadequate Larry Bowers, who specializes in battle. temperature and humidity controls conserving wooden objects, was in Among the highlights of the new that contributed to the cyclorama's charge of the desk. museum will be the newly restored deterioration. "It is very modest and fairly crude, but , a 360-degree Latschar, the Gettysburg it is what a soldier would have wanted painting that depicts the key moment superintendent, said about 970 Union in the field," Bowers said. "It is not of the battle, Pickett's Charge, when soldiers were killed, captured, or high style. The coolest thing about it Rebel soldiers came close to wounded in the area around Neutra's is that General Lee used it." breaking through the center of the and the current The worn and chipped black desk, 's position on July 3, the visitor’s center, adding to the with its interior pigeonholes for notes last day of the battle. importance of returning that part of and writing paper, will ascend to star The massive 1884 painting, by Paul the battlefield to its 1863 condition. status next year when it is Philippoteaux, measures nearly 360 No major action took place at the site prominently displayed in the $103 feet long and 27 feet high, and it of the new museum and visitor’s million Museum and Visitor Center at weighs more than three tons. A team center. Gettysburg National Military Park, of conservators is repairing extensive Latschar said moving the cyclorama scheduled to open in April. The damage and adding a missing 14-foot building would be prohibitively complex will also house the park's strip to the top of the cyclorama. expensive, but French said she is 365-foot cyclorama painting and its Foundation spokeswoman Dru Anne getting more detailed proposals from collection of more than 300,000 Neil said the $11.2 million project, companies that specialize in objects and artifacts and 700,000 which will be finished in September of relocating large buildings. documents. 2008, is the largest art conservation Despite the effort and expense that is project in America. being devoted to preserving the battlefield, Gettysburg was included

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taken from phrases Abraham Lincoln stone wall, known now as , used in his famous address. during Pickett's Charge on July 3 Bowers said that when conserving when a bullet slammed into the book the desk and other objects, the plan and his chest, killing him. is never to make them look new or Park Service records are not clear even particularly tidy. about how the little book ended up at "The idea is to do as little as possible, the Gettysburg museum, but it is one to be as uninvasive as possible," he of the prized possessions. Its cover is said. darkened by much handling and Bowers is used to working with some edges are worn away. The delicate old wood. In his spare time, bullet struck just above the middle, he is a violin maker. leaving a tunnel in the leather and The desk had been in storage since paper. 1971, when the Park Service Cassidy's prayer book, similar to purchased the building in Gettysburg religious books sold by sutlers at — now its museum — and the campsites, will have a prominent contents of a private collection position in the gallery devoted to the housed there. The desk was built in third day of the battle. Nearby will be two pieces so it could travel easily in the spurs Gen. wore National Park Service/The Washington Post wagons. Bowers gently cleaned the at Gettysburg. desk, removing dead bugs and old Gen. Robert E. Lee's desk will be on display Excavation of Monitor when the Gettysburg Museum opens next nests but leaving the ink stains and April. The desk recently was restored at the chipped paint. He removed all the turret completed at Va. National Park Service's Harpers Ferry metal pieces, cleaned them and museum conservation lab. coated them with hot microcrystalline Associated Press, August 7, 2007 wax, a synthetic material, that will NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The Gettysburg Foundation, a keep them from tarnishing. Conservators have finished chiseling private, nonprofit educational The desk is ready for exhibit, and concreted sand and rust from the organization, is raising the funds for Bowers has moved on to conserving inside of the USS Monitor gun turret, the complex, in partnership with the a chest of drawers that came from a which was salvaged from the Civil Park Service. Foundation President Gettysburg home and was hit twice War shipwreck off Cape Hatteras, Robert Wilburn said the museum by bullets during the battle. N.C., in August 2000. galleries will be arranged so that a Elsewhere in the lab, conservation on This summer's final stage of the five- visitor sees the exhibits in the context other star attractions for the new year excavation at The Mariners of the war. The planned galleries museum is taking place. They include Museum turned up more than a include causes of the Civil War, the litter that carried the wounded Lt. dozen unexpected artifacts _ approach to the war, the three days Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson off including silverware, bullets and gun- of battle and the Gettysburg Address. the Chancellorsville battlefield, a 34- sight covers--hidden inside the last "The objects will be displayed in the star flag missing most of its stripes, a few inches of concretion. period in which the event occurred," decorative apron resembling the U.S. It also revealed several previously Wilburn said. "At present, there is no flag and a wooden bed used by Lee unknown features of the historic context. Things are just grouped in the field. None has been displayed turret, including brass fittings for the together. We are changing that to before. sight holes drilled through its thick help the visitor." A pocket-size, leather-bound prayer armored walls. "We've literally Lee's battered, ink-stained desk will book, which had been exhibited at the removed tons of sediment and be in Gallery 5, the exhibit area Gettysburg museum, also received concretion over the past few years. themed "Campaign to Pennsylvania: attention. Pvt. John Cassidy of the So, while we expected to make a few Testing Whether That Nation Can 69th Pennsylvania Infantry was finds, we didn't foresee anything like Long Endure." The gallery names are defending the Union line along a this," museum conservator Dave

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Krop said Friday. knees, James chiseled away at the The depiction of the Battle of "The amount of new information we rocklike substance for hours, Gettysburg's climactic moment has discovered was really astounding." recovering such artifacts as a begun the final stages of its return. The 21.5-foot-wide turret is the mechanic's hammer, two gun-sight The circular oil painting survived 124 hallmark feature of the Union covers, a hog's hair brush, a small years of use and abuse. It has been ironclad, which made naval history silver spoon and a long steel file. restored in an $11.2 million, four-year when it clashed with the CSS She also exposed numerous conservation program and will be the Virginia--also known as the previously unseen features of the showpiece of a new $7.5 million Merrimack--in the March 9, 1862, turret, including two sight holes and building at Gettysburg National Battle of Hampton Roads. their meticulously crafted brass Military Park. Several excavation campaigns have covers. Last week, a Great Falls-based firm, resulted in the removal of not only A Battle Scene's Full Olin Conservation Inc., assisted by a tons of sediment and concretion but team of Polish cyclorama experts, also a set of human remains, Circle raised the first of 14 sections of the hundreds of artifacts and the Torched, Torn, Tattered and painting inside the huge new circular Monitor's two cannons. The next step Trimmed, Massive Painting of structure that will house it. is subjecting the walls and roof of the Gettysburg Enjoys Restoration and A gang of conservators -- shoeless to upside-down turret to a long period of Return to Prominence avoid damaging the canvas -- spent anticorrosion treatment with a low- By Michael E. Ruane all day Wednesday preparing and ampere electrical current. Washington Post Staff Writer maneuvering the 26-foot-wide, 950- "Ideally, you'd like to excavate Sunday, August 12, 2007; C01 pound section into place. something like this from start to Gettysburg, Pa. "Everybody ready?" At one point, it had to be flipped from finish," Krop said. "But for a variety of asks the chief art conservator, David its face-down position with a big conservation reasons we had to do it L. Olin. aluminum roller. It was then hauled in stages." He pauses for a second, then starts up a kind of launching ramp and Among those reasons was the the hoist. With the drone of clamped into the curved steel and potentially dangerous structural state machinery, a segment of the oak bracket, or cornice, from which it of the corroded iron roof, which had legendary Gettysburg cyclorama, four would hang. Bracket and painting to be carefully reinforced, as well as stories tall, begins to rise up the wall were hoisted to the ceiling with cables the threat posed by the precariously and back to life. and chains. perched 17,000-pound cannons There, in a corner of the painting, is The project is the work of a before they were removed in late the famous black dog howling partnership between the National 2004. eternally over the body of a slain Park Service, which oversees the Unlike most archaeological digs on soldier. Nearby, two men with a battlefield, and a private, nonprofit land, this project required the time- stretcher again carry a wounded fundraising organization called the consuming use of hammers and comrade, whose right arm dangles Gettysburg Foundation. The aim is to chisels. over the side. In the center, build a modern museum and visitor "You have to hammer through horsemen gallop in the perpetual complex, restore and re-house the everything to get at the artifacts. It's shadow of battle smoke. cyclorama, tear down the old visitor very slow and tedious--and As the canvas clears the floor, it falls buildings nearby and return that sometimes even painful," said Tiffany into place with a soft whoosh. landscape to its Civil War-era James, a Monitor National Marine Applause breaks out among the art appearance. Sanctuary intern who worked inside conservators and bystanders. There The new $103 million, barn-red visitor the turret this summer and in 2006. are tears, hugs, whoops and complex, designed to suggest a "But it's really great when you finally handshakes. Pennsylvania farm, is scheduled to get them out and you get to touch "It's up," says senior conservator open next spring, project officials something that no one has held in Debra Selden of this Gilded Age said. their hands for 145 years." wonder, an IMAX of its time. Work on the cyclorama, including often stooped over on her hands and “At last.” preparation, hanging and assembly of

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advertisements for the Bull Run painting. Cyclorama paintings were the rage in Nine "Gettysburgs" once were on the the mid- to late 1800s, a kind of mass cyclorama circuit, according to Susan entertainment of their time. They Boardman, museum coordinator for required special buildings to display the Gettysburg Foundation and them in all their majesty. Many cities historical consultant on the cyclorama in the United States and Europe had project. cyclorama or buildings, Four were executed by Philippoteaux, and the huge paintings, often of epic she said. The first was installed in battles, made the rounds like Chicago. The one now at Gettysburg blockbuster movies. was his second and was originally created for . Philippoteaux did others in 1886 for New York and Philadelphia. The New York version was displayed in Washington's panorama building, according to Boardman. Philippoteaux's were considered fairly accurate and emotionally effective at the time. "It is simply wonderful," Union Gen. , who had fought in the battle, wrote after seeing the one in Chicago in 1884. "I never before had an idea that the eye could be so deceived by paint (and) canvas." The cyclorama in Gettysburg includes several historical figures, along with a Maura Duffy walks by the first of the self-portrait of Philippoteaux, who is the remaining 13 segments, will keep Gettysburg cyclorama's 14 panels to be shown leaning against a tree with a the roughly 377-foot-long canvas hung in the battle site's new facility, set to saber in his hand. open next year. Photo Credit: By closed to the public until fall 2008. Katherine Frey -- The Washington Post The artist was first hired to produce a The 1884 painting, executed by Photo Gettysburg cyclorama by Chicago French artist , The paintings were big moneymakers businessman Charles Willoughby, once hung in pieces in a Newark and so popular that season tickets Boardman said. Such paintings were department store. And until 2005, were available. usually executed by teams of artists when it was closed to the public, it Washington had at least two with certain specialties. One, for had been on display for more than 40 panorama buildings. One, a round example, might be good at painting years in the old 1960s-era cyclorama structure about five stories tall, was horses, Boardman said. Another building here. on 15th Street NW, two blocks south might excel at landscapes or people Last week was a milestone in its often of the Treasury Building. In the 1880s or faces. hazardous journey across history. and '90s, crowds gathered there to She said in 1881 and 1882, "This is absolutely incredible," senior visit cycloramas of the battles of Philippoteaux, then in his mid-30s, paintings conservator Maura Duffy Gettysburg and Shiloh and the visited Gettysburg and hired local said as the first section was readied Second Battle of Bull Run. photographer William H. Tipton to for its resurrection. "It's a dream An old photograph of the building, take pictures of the battlefield. Many come true." with the Washington Monument in the of the photographs survive, she said, distance, shows it emblazoned with and depict a pristine battlefield before

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"the monumentation craze" of a few tile-covered building on home after refusing to remove or years later. in Gettysburg and put the painting on cover the images. His mother Philippoteaux also came to display. "And it never left," Boardman withdrew him from the school that Washington to research the battle said. day, and he filed suit against the and examine maps. The National Park Service, realizing school district in November. He returned to France to start work. the painting's cultural value, acquired In January, two other students — Philippoteaux painted a small version it in 1942 and, with the approach of identified in the suit only by their of the painting, which shows Pickett's the 100th battle anniversary in 1963, initials — also were punished for Charge, the m ain Confederate attack had it restored and installed in a then- wearing clothes that contained on the last day of the battle, July 3, new ultra-modern visitor Confederate images and statements 1863. Then he set his team to center/cyclorama building. The 1913 of support for Archambo. Both painting a hugely expanded copy. structure on Cemetery Hill was students joined the suit in March. All Boardman said the version now in demolished. three students argued that wearing Gettysburg might have been painted, But that was nearly a half-century the Confederate flag is protected or at least completed, inside the ago. Now the 1960s building has expression under the First Boston building where it was to be grown ragged and outdated, and it is Amendment. displayed. "No one knows for sure," due to be torn down. Officials from the school district she said. His remaining two were Throughout, the painting has survived argued that the clothes violated the painted in the United States. -- battered, patched, trimmed, carved school's dress code, which bans Only two of the Gettysburg up, touched up and now getting new "[d]ress that materially disrupts the cycloramas are believed to still exist. life. educational environment." That Besides the one at the battle site, With all that, as conservator Mary language mirrors the legal standard Wake Forest University in Winston- Wootton said last week: "It really is a set in Tinker v. Des Moines Salem, NC, recently announced the treasure." Independent Community School sale to anonymous buyers of what it Judge OKs Mo. school's District, a 1969 Supreme Court ruling said was Philippoteaux's first that prohibits public school "Gettysburg." The university said a ban on clothes with administrators from suppressing local artist left it to the school when Confederate flag student expression unless the he died in 1996. The artist, Joseph Ruling: Fears of disruption were expression would materially disrupt Wallace King, said he had found the reasonable given previous racial school operations or invade the rights painting in 1965 behind a wall in a incidents of others. burned-out Chicago warehouse. Student Press Law Center, In dismissing the suit, U.S. District The painting now in Gettysburg has a August 13, 2007 Judge Jean C. Hamilton ruled it was tangled history. It was taken off reasonable for Farmington exhibit in Boston in 1890. Later it fell MISSOURI — A federal district court administrators to fear that allowing on hard times, doomed by the arrival on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the students to wear images of the of movies. three high school students who were Confederate flag would increase It was cut into 27 sections and placed punished for wearing Confederate racial tensions and thus materially in a 50-foot-long wooden crate in a symbols to school. disrupt the school environment. The vacant lot in Boston. There, vandals Farmington High School student decision took note of several racially twice set it afire, and it was exposed Bryce Archambo wore a hat in motivated incidents in the school to the elements, Boardman said. September with a picture of the district the previous year. In the early 1900s, Albert Hahne, the Confederate flag and the words "Against this backdrop, the Court Newark department store owner, "C.S.A., Rebel Pride, 1861." School cannot conclude that Defendants acquired the painting and displayed officials made him take off the hat, banned the Confederate flag because much of it in his store. Then came the but Archambo returned the next day of nothing more than 'undifferentiated move to Pennsylvania. In 1913, the wearing a T-shirt and belt buckle with fear or apprehension of disturbance,' 50th anniversary of the battle, Hahne a Confederate flag image and the " Hamilton wrote. and other investors built an unheated, words "Dixie Classic." He was sent

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A boom looms for Civil owner Cathy Strite said the leisurely Union shot in defense of Fort Sumter, Civil War packages appeal to history- in Charleston, S.C., in 1861. War tourism loving "new seniors" - baby boomers The coming 150th anniversary who wouldn't dream of taking a tour Monitor cannon now sparks a range of tours that bus to Branson, Mo. venture beyond the battlefields. "They say, 'I want education, I want to upright By David Dishneau, Associated keep living, I want to keep learning, I By Mark St. John Erickson, Newport Press, August 14, 2007 want to keep my mind active,' " Strite News Daily Press, August 8, 2007 SHARPSBURG, Md. - Would you like said. "All that will absolutely explode NEWPORT NEWS - Conservators your Civil War history seasoned with as we approach the 150th." used two 20-ton hoists and an baseball trivia? Spritzed up with a At Gettysburg, 155 guides are ingenious doughnut-shaped turning winery tour? Do you long to dissect licensed by the National Park Service cradle Wednesday to right one of the the Battle of Antietam with a Pulitzer and are the only people allowed to massive upside-down cannons Prize-winning historian? give paid tours of the battlefield. recovered from the wreck of the USS Hire a guide. Park rangers at Gettysburg and Monitor in 2000. As the 150th anniversary of the War Antietam also give programs on the The 13-foot-long Dahlgren gun, which Between the States approaches, battles, but their offerings are weighs about 17,000 pounds, helped starting with John Brown's 1859 restricted by their numbers - just 18 the famous Civil War ironclad make prewar raid at Harpers Ferry, W.Va., year-round rangers at Gettysburg and naval history when it squared off with customized tours for people six at Antietam. the armored CSS Virginia - also fascinated by the conflict are At the Antietam National Battlefield, known as the Merrimack - in the multiplying. just outside the western Maryland March 9, 1862 Battle of Hampton As little as $50 buys a two-hour, hamlet of Sharpsburg, guides are Roads. private guided tour of Antietam, site gearing up for next month's 145th But not since the ship sank and of the bloodiest day of the war, or anniversary of a clash that left more landed upside down off Cape Gettysburg National Military Park, the than 23,000 dead, wounded or Hatteras, N.C. at the end of 1862 has high-water mark of the Confederacy, missing on Sept. 17, 1862. either of its two guns lain upright, in Pennsylvania. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's enabling onlookers to inspect the Those thirsting for more knowledge retreat from Antietam gave President commemorative post-battle engraving can join multistate bus tours of up to Abraham Lincoln the political strength on the top of the barrel. six days led by scholars including to issue the Emancipation “It's nice to see it over on the right James McPherson, whose 1988 book Proclamation five days later. side," said Gary Paden, an artifact Battle Cry of Freedom won a Pulitzer Those are the basics. But if you hire handler at The Mariners' Museum, Prize and helped rekindle interest in guide Randy Buchman of the who helped design the turning rig. the conflict. The cost of the marathon Antietam Battlefield Guides, you'll "It's been a good long while." trek, offered by Civil War Tours of likely hear about Gen. Abner Winchester, Conn.: $950, excluding Doubleday, who commanded a Union hotel lodging. division at Antietam and is popularly "We interpret the events of the battle thought to have invented baseball. as they unfolded, which the average Buchman, who is writing a book guy can't do standing there reading about Doubleday, said the baseball the park brochure by the wayside," story is false, since Doubleday was a tour operator David A. Ward said. West Point cadet when he Between these extremes is an supposedly invented the game in assortment of tours tailored for Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1839. virtually every taste. All-In-One Tours But Buchman said Doubleday did and Cruises of Lancaster blends throw out the first metaphorical pitch Jeff Johnston, historian of the Monitor visits to Virginia battlefields with wine of the Civil War by firing the first National Marine Sanctuary, chisels tastings, plantation house tours and concreted sediment from the roof of Shakespeare plays. Company co- the turret. Joe Fudge/Daily Press photo,

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145th Anniversary Of Convention and Visitors Bureau Details emerge on President Tom Riford. "The events Historic Battle Of South happening in Boonsboro and at South Harrisburg Museum’s Mountain Mountain will attract over 10,000 deal with Google South Mountain State Battlefield people, and the number of re- Presents “In The Footsteps Of enactors alone total over 2,500 BY JERRY L. GLEASON, The Soldiers” people. Our hats are off to the staff Patriot-News, August 27, 2007 MD Dept of Natural Resources press and management of South Mountain When Gen. Robert E. Lee's release, August 31, 2007 Battlefield, who are helping bring the Confederate army invaded BOONSBORO, MD - For three days entire historical perspective of the Pennsylvania in 1863, the military in September, South Mountain State weekend together. campaign touched the lives of Battlefield in Washington County will South Mountain State Battlefield hundreds of Pennsylvania residents present “In The Footsteps Of Anniversary Programs in small towns, in their homes and on Soldiers”, a series of tours and Saturday, September 8, 2007 their farms. special programming to 9 a.m. Their stories will be told in two commemorate the 145th anniversary Museum Opens, Cannon tourism projects involving the Google of the Battle of South Mountain. Each at Reenactment Site Earth Project -- the Pennsylvania tour focuses on a particular regiment 10 a.m. Tourism Office and The National Civil or brigade and guides visitors to Walking Tour to Monument at the War Museum in Harrisburg. positions occupied by troops on the Washington Monument State Park "This is a deeper immersion into the battlefield. 11 a.m. Civil War, beyond battlefields and The Battle of South Mountain was the Battle Overview Talk at the Museum generals and into the lives of the first major battle of the Civil War to 12 a.m. people living in Pennsylvania at the take place in Maryland. Fought on Civil War Medical Museum time," said Lenwood Sloan of the September 14, 1862, it happened Presentation at the Museum Pennsylvania Tourism Office. three days before the more well- 1 p.m. "People know what happened on the known Battle of Antietam fought on Civil War Artillery Demonstration on battlefield in Gettysburg, but they September 17, and resulted in more the Field in Front of Museum don't know about the civilian than 6,000 casualties. The one-day 1 p.m. experience. battle became a pivotal point in the “Death of a Brigade,” Afternoon Battle "This program, which we are calling Maryland Campaign, setting the Tour of Fox’s Gap. 'The Pennsylvania Civil War Trail: stage for the Battle of Antietam, the (Meet at the parking lot at Fox’s Gap.) Prelude to Gettysburg,' is for the bloodiest single day battle in 2 p.m. casual traveler who likes history ... American history. Battle Overview Talk at the Museum and cultural explorers who travel "Without South Mountain, there would 3 p.m. through small towns and on back not have been a Battle of Antietam," Sunday, September 9, 2007 roads as well as the serious Civil War said Al Preston, Manager of the 10 a.m. enthusiast," Sloan said. South Mountain State Battlefield. Walking Tour to Monument at the Historical markers, including Civil War “South Mountain State Battlefield was Washington Monument State Park period photos and a narrative, will be Maryland's first battlefield state park.” 11 a.m. placed at 56 locations from Several events and tours are Civil War Artillery Demonstration on Waynesboro to Harrisburg. scheduled in conjunction with the the Field in Front of Museum The Google Earth part, which nearby town of Boonsboro’s 12 a.m. combines the power of an Internet “Boonsboro Days” celebration and Battle Overview Talk at the Museum search with satellite imagery and the 145th anniversary re-enactment, 1 p.m. maps, will provide panoramic images entitled “September Storm.” Civil War Artillery Demonstration at and detailed closeup views of the "This is a big weekend for the Field in Front of Museum sites. Washington County," said James Schmick, a Civil War buff who Hagerstown-Washington County is a member of the

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Historical Society and Civil War Local images on Google Earth will Initially, museum officials indicated Round Table and owner of a include Civil War sites, such as Camp that Lexington, home to the burial Mechanicsburg bookstore, "Civil War Curtin and the Broad Street Market, sites of Confederate Gens. Robert E. and More," said the project can only which provided food to soldiers at the Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" be a plus for Pennsylvania. The camp. It will also show the city Jackson, as well as Washington and society has assisted with research for skyline, baseball stadium, Market Lee University and Virginia Military the project, he said. Square, Reservoir Park, and other Institute, would be a good location. "The Pennsylvania trail will hook up sites. The city's proximity to Interstate 81 with Civil War trails in Virginia and "The first marker is already in place, and a range of other Civil War sites in Maryland, and let people know what in Market Square in downtown central Virginia were considered is available in Pennsylvania," Harrisburg," Stuart said. "This is an assets that would help draw tourists Schmick said. introductory marker, introducing the to Lexington and make the museum Jeb Stuart, secretary of the National Civil War trail." successful if it were to locate there. Civil War Museum, said the museum Lexington comes up In April, the museum sought is providing the Civil War period relocation proposals from about 10 imaging and stories for the markers. short in race to relocate localities, including Lexington. The Many of the sites are unmarked, Confederate museum museum wanted to know what making them difficult to find for facilities and financial incentives the anyone other that serious Civil War Proposals to the Museum of the localities would be willing to offer to buffs, Stuart said. Confederacy appear to have attract the museum and its promise of "The purpose is to promote Civil War revealed several other tourism tourism dollars. sites north of the Mason-Dixon Line," possibilities. That information apparently has Stuart said. "We will capture the By Jay Conley, Roanoke Times, opened the eyes of museum officials every-day life stories of what August 24, 2007 to a range of tourism possibilities happened in Pennsylvania during this Despite months of trying to lure the throughout the state. period in American history." world's largest collection of Civil War Rawls won't say which localities are Markers will be placed in places such artifacts to town, Lexington is not at being considered or which one is the as Fleming Farm, just outside the top of a list of localities being top contender. Lexington is the only Greencastle, where Confederate and considered for the Museum of the community that has publicly Union soldiers first clashed in Confederacy's relocation. acknowledged an interest in attracting Pennsylvania; Mary Ritner's Boarding "They are on the short list but not at the museum. The other localities House in Chambersburg, where John the top of the short list," said Waite have preferred to negotiate privately Brown stayed in 1859 before his raid Rawls, the museum's executive with the museum. on the federal arsenal at Harpers director. "We're continuing to have Ferry, Va.; and near Since January, Lexington and conversations with a whole bunch of Waynesboro, where the second- Rockbridge County officials have people, learning a lot more than we largest battle of the campaign was worked to broker a deal to renovate knew before about various visitation fought by 10,000 soldiers during the the old Rockbridge County patterns in the state of Virginia," Confederate retreat. Courthouse in historic downtown Rawls said. "Most of which are pretty The Civil War museum will work with Lexington as a new home for the encouraging." the Ben Franklin Technology Partners museum. Rawls said the museum's board of to provide the photographic and The museum announced in October directors is still on track to negotiate imaging technology on Google Earth. that it wants to move from its an agreement for a new site by fall. The museum has received $350,000 cramped quarters in downtown Lexington's proposal was submitted for the project, with $285,000 coming Richmond in order to build a larger by the Rockbridge Area Tourism from the Ben Franklin Technology facility and avoid further expansion of Board after being approved by both Partners and the remainder from the the neighboring Virginia the Rockbridge County Board of state's Pennsylvania Dutch Country Commonwealth University School of Supervisors and the Lexington City Roads tourism promotion initiative. Medicine. Council. It spelled out how the

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THE “OLD LINER” NEWSLETTER museum could locate its collection of condition now termed strabismus. defects, to scan a bronze and a 14,000 artifacts in the old courthouse Lincoln's smaller left eye socket may plaster copy of two life masks, owned and surrounding buildings on Main have displaced a muscle controlling by the Chicago History Museum. Street. vertical movement, said Dr. Ronald Life masks were in vogue in the The proposal laid out a scenario for Fishman, who led the study published 1860s, said James Cornelius, curator renovating the courthouse and in the August issue of the Archives of at the Lincoln Presidential Library in creating a public-private partnership Ophthalmology. Springfield, Ill. to get tax incentives to attract the Severe strabismus leads to double Lincoln cooperated with sculptors to museum. vision and can be treated today by make them twice, in 1860 before his Supporters of the museum say surgery. first presidential nomination, and in Lexington and the Rockbridge County "Lincoln noticed double vision only 1865, two months before his area stand to collect an estimated $1 occasionally and it did not bother him assassination. Lincoln probably did it million annually in tax revenue from a great deal," said Fishman, a retired for political purposes more than the tourist spending that the museum Washington, D.C., ophthalmologist posterity, Cornelius said. is expected to generate. and history buff. "It's the equivalent of TV face time Others say the Confederate-themed Most people's faces are now," Cornelius said. museum is synonymous with asymmetrical, Fishman said, but One-ton Lincoln bust to promoting slavery and would be Lincoln's case was extreme, with the unwelcome in Lexington. bony ridge over his left eye rounder stay in Gettysburg The museum's cramped quarters in and thinner than the right side, and By MATT CASEY, Hanover Evening Richmond can only display about 10 set backward. Sun, August 18, 2007 percent of the collection at a time. A Lincoln's appearance was mocked by A bust of Abraham Lincoln will not be lack of parking and nearby his political enemies, historians say. making a journey to the train station restaurants also has been a concern. The author Nathaniel Hawthorne, a where the president changed trains Lincoln fan, wrote of the president's on the way to Gettysburg, but will Lincoln may have had "homely sagacity" and his "sallow, instead make a shorter trip to the queer, sagacious visage." station where he arrived in town. facial defect Hawthorne's description was deemed The National Park Service had By CARLA K. JOHNSON, Associated disrespectful and deleted by a offered the nearly one-ton stone bust Press, Aug 13, 2007 magazine editor, said Daniel to York County because the Park CHICAGO - Artists, sculptors and Weinberg, owner of the Abraham Service is restoring the Wills House photographers knew Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago. as a museum, and plans have visitors Lincoln's face had a good side. Now Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon enter through the York Street door it's confirmed by science. Laser Borglum described the left side of where the Lincoln bust stood. scans of two life masks, made from Lincoln's face as primitive, immature Lincoln slept at the Wills House the plaster casts of Lincoln's face, reveal and unfinished. night before delivering the Gettysburg the 16th president's unusual degree When Lincoln was a boy, he was Address. of facial asymmetry, according to a kicked in the head by a horse. Laser York County officials thought it would new study. scans can't settle whether the kick or be appropriate to place the bust at The left side of Lincoln's face was a developmental defect — or neither Hanover Junction in North Codorus much smaller than the right, an — contributed to Lincoln's lopsided Township, where Lincoln changed aberration called cranial facial face, Fishman said. trains. microsomia. The defect joins a long The scanning technique is usually But the 70-inch statue carved by York list of ailments — including smallpox, used to create 3-D images of children sculptor Joe Kelly will instead move heart illness and depression — that with cleft lip and palate before and to Gettysburg's recently restored modern doctors have diagnosed in after surgery. Fishman teamed up Lincoln Train Station. Lincoln. with Dr. Adriana Da Silveira, an Tina Grim, a board member of the Lincoln's contemporaries noted his Austin, Texas, orthodontist who Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania, left eye at times drifted upward specializes in children with facial said the fellowship bought the bust for independently of his right eye, a the Wills House in 1981, and it stood

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THE “OLD LINER” NEWSLETTER there until the Park Service removed an emphasis on the Underground with the vision to develop a larger, it for the renovation. Railroad. more visible location for the museum, The Park Service thought the statue Mayor John F. Street presented said E. Harris Baum, chairman of the was abandoned property, Grim said, museum officials with a check for board. but the fellowship still technically $1.2 million, putting them closer to "We're going to have a different kind owns it. their goal of raising $25 million for its of museum that isn't just about When members of the fellowship read relocation. Gettysburg or Antietam," Baum said. that the Park Service planned to ship The museum's board had been trying "This museum is going to be about the bust to York County, they decided to secure a new home for years. In people, Philadelphians, living in this to assert their ownership. 2003, it failed to get a spot in the 131- area during the Civil War." "We really wanted to keep the bust in year-old Memorial Hall, which is Gettysburg," Grim said. being renovated to house a children's Grim said the fellowship is in the museum. process of transferring ownership of The move follows years of litigation the bust to the National Trust for and funding woes. At one point, there Historic Gettysburg, which has its was a possibility parts of the office at the train station. museum's collection would be moved The trust will display the bust at the to Richmond, Va., the former capital train station, Grim said, which is open of the Confederacy. daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Abraham Lincoln impersonator Grim said Tuesday that the officials Christian Johnson began Tuesday's handling the transfer in York County ceremony in the high-ceiling atrium of had not yet been informed, but that the former bank with re-enactors from she visited Hanover Junction and the Third U.S. Colored Infantry discovered that it already has a bust Regiment. of Lincoln. "What a historic day this is," Johnson Philadelphia Civil War said. "I'm pleased to see the Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum museum moving to new ... will move here in just a few years historic location to this majestic building." By RUBINA MADAN, Associated The First Bank of the United States, Press, August 8, 2007 built in the 1790s, is much closer to PHILADELPHIA - The oldest Civil the city's well-known tourist sites, War museum in the country will be such as Independence Hall and the moving from a downtown row house Liberty Bell, than the museum's to a classic colonial building close to cramped building near Rittenhouse Independence Hall, museum officials Square. The National Park Service announced Tuesday. describes the bank building on its The Civil War and Underground Web site as "probably the first Railroad Museum of Philadelphia is important building with a classic slated to reopen in 2010 at its new facade of marble to be erected in the location, the site of the former First United States." Bank of the United States. The museum says it has the largest The museum was founded in 1888 Civil War collection in private hands, and has been tucked away in a four- including about 3,000 artifacts, 7,000 story house since 1922. Formerly photographs, hundreds of pieces of known as the Civil War Library and art and a 10,000-volume library. Museum, it was reborn in 2003 with Its board of governors had reorganized and expanded in 2003

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