Summer 1996 Issue No. 62 BATTLEFIELD UPDATE

newsletter of the AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD PROTECTION PROGRAM U.S. Department of the Interior • • Heritage Preservation Services

ABPP AWARDS PARTNERSHIP BATTLEFIELDS AND THE FUNDING Mill Springs Battlefield Interpretation / Mill WORLD WIDE WEB Springs Battlefield Association

The American Battlefield Protection MARYLAND The World Wide Web is perhaps the most profound technological tool for Program is pleased to announce its 1996 Tour Brochure and Information Repository for Partnership Funding award-winners. South Mountain Battlefield / Central Maryland disseminating information since Eighty applicants requested a total of Heritage League, Inc. Gutenberg's movable type. Battlefield enthusiasts, historians, and preserva­ approximately $2 million, more than MISSISSIPPI double the amount available in tionists have jumped at the opportunity to partnership funds. A National Park Brices Cross Roads Battlefield Conceptual post information on the Web, a network of Interpretive Site Plan and Signage / Brices Service committee reviewed the Crossroads National Battlefield Commission computer servers that allows users to applications and awarded nearly quickly access Internet information. Web $700,000 in partnership funding for Presen'ation Action Plan for Raymond "browsers" such as Netscape and Mosaic Battlefield/ Mississippi Department of display that information in an aesthetically thirty-two projects (see below). While Archives and History most projects concern Priority I Civil pleasing way. The Web has been War battlefields (the fifty battlefields Siege and Battle of Corinth Battlefield available for public consumption for only most needing preservation according to Stabilization Assessment / City of Corinth a few years, but already hundreds of the Civil War Sites Advisory MISSOURI cybersites pertaining to American wars Commission), several of this year's (especially the Civil War), military Newtonia Battlefield Archaeological Survey / winners focus on Revolutionary War, Newtonia Battlefields Protection Association history, battlefields and related sites, and Indian War, and Civil War (other than research sources exist. Priority I) sites. MONTANA To help both novice and veteran Web Archaeological Collections Assessment of Bear surfers, the ABPP has compiled an Paw Battlefield /Nez Perce National Historic annotated list of Web sites that provide Battlefield important information about the above ARKANSAS NEW MEXICO subjects. The annotations are based on the editor's opinion of each site's content, Arkansas Civil War Heritage Trail Mapping of the Glorieta Battle and Santa Fe organization, ease of use, and design. Interpretation / Arkansas Historic Preservation Trail / Pecos National Historic Park Program This list should not be construed as NORTH CAROLINA the ABPP's or the National Park GEORGIA Bentonville Battlefield Comprehensive Service's endorsement of any public Allatoona Battlefield Comprehensive Historical Resources Preservation Plan / institution, private company, or Presen'ation Plan / Etowah Valley Historical Bentonville Battleground Historical Association Society, Inc. individual, nor does the ABPP vouch for PENNSYLVANIA the accuracy of information in any site McLemore Cove Battlefield Site Assessment listed below. Report / McLemore Cove Preservation Society Brandywine Battlefield National Historic Landmark Protection Implementation Project / The following Web sites were culled Resaca Battlefield Interpretive Strategy Report / Delaware County Planning Department from Universal Resource Locators Georgia Civil War Commission (URLs), or Web "addresses," compiled by Gettysburg Exhibit Design and Economic Ringgold Gap Battlefield Survey / Catoosa Impact Study/Main Street Gettysburg Brian Keith McCutchen at Shiloh County Historical Society, Inc. National Battlefield. The ABPP reviewed

See AWARDS, page 2 See WEB, page 4 AWARDS, from page 1 NEW COIMMEMORATIVE each; one other is currently being reviewed. Most recently, the Secretary COIN PROJECTS APPROVED approved the use of coin revenues for TENNESSEE land purchases at the battlefields of As of June 6, 1996, the Secretary Spring Hill Battlefield Interpretive Plan / Maury Perryville, Kentucky; Brices Cross County Convention and Visitors Bureau of the Interior had approved seventeen Roads, Mississippi; Glorieta Pass, New requests for revenue from the sale of Mexico; and South Mountain, Stones River Transportation Mitigation Alternative Study / Rutherford County Civil War Commemorative Coins for Maryland. (For a list of previously the acquisition of historic battlefield funded projects, see Battlefield Update, VIRGINIA lands. To date, coin sales have Spring 1996.) Battlefield Preservation and Implementation generated roughly $6 million. The The sum of the seventeen approved Plan for Hanover County / Hanover County Civil War Trust, the organization expenditures is slightly more than Board of Supervisors responsible for processing requests for $3,500,000, leaving available nearly Community Outreach at Petersburg National coin monies, received forty-five project $2,500,000 in coin revenues. Of the Battlefield / Partners in Parks proposals requesting $10,032,455. remaining twenty-seven applications The Civil War Trust has reviewed A Civil War Guide to the City of Petersburg / received by the Civil War Trust, the City of Petersburg and forwarded eighteen applications to Secretary anticipates approving five to the ABPP for comment. The ABPP seven requests. North Anna Battlefield Interpretation / Blue and recommended seventeen to the Gray Education Society Secretary, who approved funding for Resources Inventory of the Rappahannock River MUSEUM AND TRAIL TELL Valley / City of Fredericksburg STORY OF PORT REPUBLIC Shenandoah Valley Battlefield Heritage BATTLEFIELD UPDATE Organization / Lord Fairfax Planning District Published by the National Park Service Commission Shenandoah Valley Civil War buffs The Wilderness: Building Community Support Roger G. Kennedy can now visit two new interpretive sites and Consensus / Civil War Trust Director associated with the Battle of Port Republic: the Frank Kemper House Spotsylvania Court House Architectural Guidelines / Spotsylvania County Katherinc H. Stevenson Museum and an interpretive trail at the Associate Director Coaling, the battle's most hotly contested hill. The conflict at Port Republic de Teel Patterson Tiller Rich Mountain Battlefield Education for Acting Chief, Heritage Preservation marked the end of 's Preservation Project / Rich Mountain Services 1862 Valley Campaign. Battlefield Foundation, Inc. The Frank Kemper House Museum's OTHERS Jan E. Townsend exhibits focus on the death of Confed­ Chief, American Battlefield Protection erate cavalry commander Turner Ashby, Continuing Development of the Civil War Discovery System / Civil War Tmst Program the battle, and the history of the town of Port Republic, Virginia. The Society of Driving-tour Brochures for Second Manassas Tanya M. Gossctt Port Republic Preservationists, Inc., Campaign, Peninsula Campaign, and Editor Gettysburg Campaign / Association for the operates the museum, which is open Preservation of Civil War Sites weekends. Jerry Buckbinder The Association for the Preservation Interpretation and Planning for Hatcher's Run, Production Manager Harris Farm, and Spring Hill (APCWS Parcel) of Civil War Sites (APCWS) dedicated Battlefields / Association for the Preservation of Battlefield Update is published quarterly an interpretive trail during the recent Civil War Sites and is available free of charge. Send anniversary of the battle on June 8 and 9. McDowell Battlefield/Staunton-to-Parkersburg articles, news items, and correspondence Visitors to the steep but short trail Pike Project / Valley Conservation Council to the Editor. Battlefield Update, leading up the Coaling will find an National Park Service. American informational brochure and three PARTNERS Student/Teacher Video on Preservation / Shepherd College Foundation Battlefield Protection Program, P.O. Box interpretive signs. 37127, Suite 250. Washington. DC The ABPP provided funding for the 20013-7127; (202) 343-3449; FAX (202) museum's interpretive plan and APCWS's 343-1836; [email protected]. trail signs.

2 THE ART OF BATTLEFIELD PRESERVATION

JJhe Mliird I falionat Conference on Many Civil War enthusiasts are familiar with artists who depict historical scenes of epic battles, famous commanders, and camp life in a romantic light. JSaltLcficla preservation James Lancel McElhinney takes a different approach to his work, capturing contemporary landscapes of historic battlefields and sites that reflect the worsening condition of today's Civil War legacy. McElhinney's artwork comes complete with Strategies for Preservation strip malls, multi-lane highways, jumbo jets, telephone wires, and parking lots. His and Partnerships is a realistic view of the American landscape that juxtaposes history and the late- twentieth century. September 18-21, 1996 In the April 1996 issue of American Arts Quarterly, interviewer and noted The Radissson Read House Hotel author James Howard Kunstler asked McElhinney to explain his artistic interest in Chattanooga, Tennessee modern views of historic battlegrounds. "If I was going to represent the American landscape it occurred to me to begin with what it represents. Civil War battlefields in their present condition provide both subject and metaphor. A lot is revealed • 6 educational sessions about battlefield preservation issues • 5 workshops • 2 battlefield tours • information fair • historic downtown Chattanooga

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For registration information, contact Hampton Tucker at (202) 343-3580 or [email protected] and watch for conference updates "Battlefield of Goldsboro Bridge—Foster's Raid" mixed media. OX KM inches. 1996 on the World Wide Web at yvww.cr.nps.gov/abpp/abpp.html about how Americans celebrate landscape by observing how we preserve, alter or destroy hallowed ground." From a preservation perspective, McElhinney's work is both a tribute to the living landscape and a lesson in cultural values. McElhinney prefers, whenever possible, to paint his subjects on location in one sitting, he aiso researches battle histories and studies historic military axyz ' '::, gain first-hand experience of how terrain and movement might have been experienced by Civil War soldiers." McElhinney's subjects include a portion of the battlefield at Malvern Hill, Virginia; Fort Mifflin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the C>t>onJo/v<2/>i/ //tr 7/a/ioruj//d™ JXrreice site of action at Kinston Bridge, North Carolina; and the well-known strip development surrounding the memorial to Colonel George Gowen and the 48th

Pennsylvania Infantry in Petersburg, Virginia. Conference partners include the American Battlefield James Lancel McElhinney is currently the Visiting Artist in Painting at East Protection Program, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, the Georgia Civil War Commission, Carolina University in North Carolina. For more information about upcoming the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the National exhibitions, write to the artist at East Carolina University, School of Art, 1308 Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers, and the Jenkins, Greenville, NC 27858. Tennessee Historical Commission.

3 WEB, from page 1 General Information each site with the Netscape 2.0 browser in June 1996. 1755: The French and Indian War Homepage (Syracuse Each entry includes the name of the Web site, the University) organization (if any) that maintains the site, the URL, and a http://web.syr.edu/~laroux/ summary of the site's contents. The most substantial Web page of French and Indian War information available as of June 1996.

Battlefield Sites and Preservation http://pages.prodigy.com/NJ/schwalbe/schwalbe.html American Battlefield Protection Program (NPS) This site links to national groups such as the United Daughters http://www.cr.nps.gov/abpp/abpp.html of the Confederacy and includes a limited battlefield The online home of the Federal government's leading "travelogue" organized by state. battlefield preservation program. Includes the C/v/7 War Sites Advisory Commission Report and 384 battle summaries. American Civil War Homepage (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites http ://funnel web. utcc. utk ,edu/~hoemann/cwarhp html http: //fly. hi waay. net/~dsmart/apcws. html A well-organized, easy-to-use general index of Civil War Sites News and membership information from the well-known on the Web. battlefield preservation organization. The American Civil War, 1861-1865 National Parks and Conservation Association http://www.access.digex.net/~bdboyle/cw.html http://npca.org/ A general-interest index of Civil War Web sites. Includes Information about the non-profit organization dedicated to National Park battlefield maps, reenactment/living history protecting and enhancing our National Parks. information, and regimental histories.

National Trust for Historic Preservation American Civil War Links http ://home. worldweb. net/t ru st/ http://www.autonomy.com/civilwar.htm Extensive online services from the nation's leading non-profit An alphabetical listing of Civil War Web sites. historic preservation organization. American Revolutionary War Web Site National Register of Historic Places (NPS) http ://www.ccs. neu. edu/home/bcortez/revwar/RevWeb html http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/nrhome.html An extensive listing of Revolutionary War reenacting units as Learn how to nominate a historic property to the National well as a general index of links. Register, what benefits come with registration, and what properties are already listed in the National Register. Civil War Resources (Dakota State University) http://www.dsu.edu/~jankej/civilwar.html New Jersey: Crossroads of the Revolution An outstanding guide to Civil War Web resources. Includes http://csbh.gbn.net/~dpost/njrw.html links to general histories, primary sources, battlefield sites, A history of New Jersey's role in the American Revolution, a and publications. list of related historic sites in the state, and more. Civil War Resources on the Internet: Abolitionism to State Historic Preservation Offices (NPS) Reconstruction (Rutgers University) http://www.cr.nps.gov/pad/shpolist.html http://www.rutgers.edu/rulib/artshum/civwar-2.html Listings for state, District of Columbia, and territorial historic A clearinghouse of Web information that pertains to the Civil preservation offices. War, its causes, and its repercussions.

U.S. National Park Service Civil War Parks (NPS) Confederate American Page (RONA Corp.) http://www.nps.gov/Architext/AT-NPSqueiy.html http: //members. gnn. com/rona/home. htm Search here for all NPS sites that pertain to the Civil War. Information about things Confederate, including the Confederate army and navy, uniforms, and trivia.

4 The Florida Star Full text examples of Civil War era holdings found in the http://mvw.gulf.net/~vbraun/FlaStar VMI Archives. A bulletin board of Civil War newsgroups and Web resources. Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (NPS) Index of Usenet Civil War Discussion Groups (Imperial http://www.cr.nps.gov/itd/weIcome.html College, London, U.K.) Describes the database of basic pension information for all http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/nc\vs-faqs/alt.war.civil.usa Civil War soldiers and sailors and how the data will be used Site includes annotated book lists and in-depth answers to (e.g., the African-American Civil War Memorial project). many frequently asked questions about the Civil War. Confederate Pension Records (Texas State Electronic Jughead Gopher Search Index: Civil War Library) gopher://logic.uc.wlu.cdu:3002/7?civil war http://link.tsl.state.tx.us/c/compt/pension.html Lists Civil War gopher sites at universities across the country. Search more than 54,000 pension records in the Texas State Archives. Results provide name, pension number, and county. Michael D. Meals' Revolutionary War Links http://q.continuum.net/~histnact/rcvwar/rcvwar.html Correspondence of Governor Morton (Indiana State Archives) An excellent, well-organized, and well-maintained http ://www. state. in. us/acin/icp r/archi ves/morton. html Revolutionary War Web site. It emphasizes rcenacting, but An index of more than 12,000 telegraph messages of Indiana's also includes newsgroups, historic documents, and a long list governor and his staff during the Civil War. of historic sites associated with the American Revolution. Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War (University of National Civil War Association California, Santa Cruz) http://ncwa.org/ http: //www. ucsc. edu/ci vil-war-letters/homc. html Provides information about living history/rcenacting units. Partial posting of letters from Private Newton Robert Scott of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers (1862-1865). U.S. Civil War Center (Louisiana State University) http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/ Selected Civil War Photographs (Prints and Photographs The Center promotes interdisiplinary study of the Civil War. Division, Library of Congress) Its well-maintained Web page describes the Center's projects http: //rs6. loc. go v/ewphome. html provides and a general index to historic sites. A remarkable visual resource containing 1,118 historic photographs.

Research Sources Special Collections (Library of Congress) http://lcweb.loc.gov/spcoll/spclhome.html American Civil War Resources (Virginia Tech) Descriptions of the Library of Congress' historic photo http://scholar2.lib.vt.edu/spec/civwar/cwhp.htm collection, law collection, and Jcdediah Flotchkiss Collection. Describes and excerpts manuscripts from Virginia Tech's archival collection. Miscellaneous Civil War Diaries (Augustana College) http://www.augustana.edu/library/civil.html /Pittsburg Landing Currently posted is the diary of an Illinois soldier and a http ://www. itek. nct/~gpg companion lesson plan for teachers. Posts primary sources, especially firsthand written accounts and historic photographs, regarding the two battles. Civil War Diary of James Laughlin Orr (University of Texas) http: //uts .cc.utexas.edu/~chu rchh/ci vwdiar. html Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier (The International Short passages from a Union officer's diary concerning Museum of the Horse) Sherman's March to the Sea. http://wvvw.horseworld.coin/imli/buf/bufl.html An online "exhibit" about the famous African American Civil War Resources (Virginia Military Institute) soldiers. http://www.vmi.edu/~archtinl/cwsource.html WEB continues, page 7

5 CIVIL WAR'S U.S. COLORED BATTLEFIELD PRESERVATION PROFILE TROOPS TO BE MEMORIALIZED

MOBILE BAY: FORI MORGAN AND FORT GAINES, Volunteers in thirty-seven states and In August 1864, Federal naval and ground forces advanced toward Mobile, the District of Columbia have completed Alabama, with the intent of closing the city's strategic port on . On a database index of approximately the morning of August 5, 1864, Union conimandcr Admiral David G. Farragut 236,000 names of U.S. Colored Troops ordered four ironclads and fourteen wooden ships to run between the cross fire of who served in the Civil War. The names and Fort Gaines, which guarded the entrance into Mobile Bay. The will be incorporated into the African lead ship, the U.S.S. Tecumseh, struck a torpedo and sank; the other ships American Civil War Memorial suffered little damage. The Federal ships then engaged the ironclad C.S.S. (AACWM), which will be dedicated in Tennessee and three inside the harbor, sinking one and compelling the September by President Clinton during a others to either surrender or flee. By securing the harbor, Farragut effectively five day celebration in Washington, D.C. closed the port. Federal forces did not breach the city's own oofenses, however, The names will be engraved on plaques until the besieged Spanish Fort and Fort Blakcly surrendered in April 1865. as an integral part of the memorial. The Preservation activity began when Alabama designated Fort Morgan a state memorial is composed of a semi-circular historic site in 1946. In 1955 the state opened Fort Gaines to the public as a wall of plaques surrounding bronze historic site after using it as a camp for the State Guard. In the 1960s, the state statues of two African American Civil passed the Underwater Marine Resources Act, which helped protect the War soldiers and one sailor set in a shipwrecks in the bay associated with the battle. That legislation is currently landscaped area that includes interpre­ being revised. State officials successfully sought both the designation of Fort tive signs. The AACWM will be the Morgan as a National Historic Landmark in 1960 and the listing of Fort Gaines first ever national monument to that in the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. war's black servicemen. More recently, the Alabama Historical Commission (AHC) developed a The volunteer effort, coordinated by management plan for Civil War resources in and around Mobile Bay with funds the Federation of Genealogical Societies provided by the American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP). The is part of die Civil War Soldiers and ABPP also supported a maritime archaeological survey of the Tecumseh and Sailors (CWSS) System Names Index other shipwrecks, archival and ground-penetrating radar research of buried project, a cooperative effort by the remains at Fort Morgan, and a maritime preservation conference. In 1994, National Park Service, the National authorities in Baldwin County passed zoning legislation that prohibits Archives, the Genealogical Society of development exceeding two stories near Fort Morgan to maintain the historic UirT, and ether organizations. When viewshed. Both forts have also recently undergone stabilization; the AHC began completed, die CWSS System will a long range program of repointing and stabilizing masonry at Fort Morgan, and contain basic information on all knows: the Army Corps of Engineers stabilized the shoreline around Fort Gaines to soldiers and sailors in Union aiioi protect it from further erosion. In 1995, combined federal ISTEA and slate funds Confederate armies and navies. Each made possible the acquisition of thirty-two additional acres at Fort Morgan. entry in die Names Index will include die soldier's name, allegiance, regiment, Today, a 477-acre state park surrounds Fort Morgan, and a 188.5-acre state rank mustered in and out, and die park/Audobon bird sanctuary buffers Fort Gaines. The sites, opposite one microfilm reference number at the another at the mouth of the bay, arc both threatened by the development of National Archives. The National Park vacation homes. In Mobile Bay itself, tides, dredging, and looting continue to Service estimates diat nearly 3.5 million endanger important underwater archaeological resources. men were in military service during die To learn more about this site contact Mike Henderson, Executive Director, Civil War. Dauphin Island Park and Beach Board, P.O. Box 97, Dauphin Island, Ah 36528, (334) 861-3607 or Blanton BlankePship, Manager, Fort Morgan For information about the Historic Site, 51 Highway 180, West, Gulf Shores. AL 36542, (334) 540-7125. AACWM's dedication, contact Lyndia Grant, Project Director, (202) 939- • 8719. Direct questions about the CWSS System to John Peterson, NPS Project This is the second in a series of Civil War battlefield profiles to appear in Manager, at (202) 343-4415 or Battlefield Update. John_Peterson@ttps. gov.

6 WEB, from page 5 LITERATURE AND INFORMATION

Civil War Studies Homepage (Smithsonian Institute) In February, The Jaeger Company published its report http ://\wwv. si .edu/youandsi/tsa/cw/cw.htm on the Policy Conference, which was Describes courses, seminars, lectures, tours, and other held in September 1995. For copies, contact Jaeger at educational opportunities offered through die Smithsonian (770) 534-0507. Institute. Also, The Price's 1864 Missouri Raid Preservation Conference Report, summarizing issues from the late Camp Chase Gazette November/early December 1995 conference, is now littp://\vww.cybergate.net/%7Ecivilwar/ available from The Blue and Gray Education Society. An online version of "die largest and oldest publication Contact Len Rieldel at (804) 797-4535 for more devoted to die coverage of Civil War reenacting." information.

CSA Currency Page http ://\vww.tiac. netAisers/vep/csa American military history lesson plans are available General information about authentic Confederate currency. from Teaching With Historic Places, an award-winning program of the National Register of Historic Places. The General George A. Custer Home Page lesson plans use primary sources, maps and charts, photos, http://pages.prodigy.com/custer/index 1 .htm and an array of historical documents to bring history alive Focuses on Custer's role at the Battle of Little Big Horn. for students in grades 5-12. Current military history lesson plans include: Gettysburg Discussion Group Attu: North American Battleground of World War II http://\v\wv.arthes.com: 1030/gettys.html Andersonville: Camp Scholarly, well-organized, and well-maintained discussion First Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence group. Remembering Pearl Harbor: The U.S.S. Arizona Memorial Guilford Courthouse: A Pivotal Battle in the War for e's Retreat Homepage (Virginia Tech) Independence http://www.chr.vt.edu/CivilWar/Retreat/Retreat.html Fort Hancock: A Bastion of America's Eastern Seaboard Traces the Army of Northern Virginia's 1865 retreat from Fort Pickens and the Outbreak of the Civil War Petersburg to Appomattox Courthouse and provides The : The Soldiers' Story information about an innovative, self-guided driving tour of The Battle of Bunker Hill: Now We Are at War die historic route. Choices and Commitments: The Soldiers at Gettysburg Chatham Plantation: Witness to the Civil War Tecumseh History Page (Tippecanoe Systems, Inc.) The Battle of Horseshoe Bend: Collisions of Cultures. http://www.tippecanoc.com/tec_hist.htm For ordering information, contact Jackdaw Discusses the Shawnee Chief and the Battle of Tippecanoe. Publications, P.O. Box 503, Amawalk, NY 10501, (800) 789-0022 or visit the Teaching With Historic Places Web U.S. Grant Network site at www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/home.html. http://www.css.edu/mkelsey/gppg.html Links to articles, images, and historic sites associated with the man, die general, and die President. NOTICES

Valley of die Shadow (University of Virginia) Join Fort Ticonderoga for die 19th Annual Memorial http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/index.htnil Military Tattoo on July 6th and 7th, 1996 at 7:30 pm. The This fascinating historical project brings die story of the Civil event commemorates die battle of July 8, 1758, which War alive through primary sources from two communities: involved heavy losses of Scottish troops in a British attack Staunton, Virginia, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. on the then French-held fort. Performing are the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band, the Akwasasnc Mohawk Wisconsin Veterans Museum (State of Wisconsin) Nation Singers and Dancers, and the Fort Ticonderoga http://badger.stote.wi.us/agencies/dva/museuni/vvwnimain.htird Corps of Fife and Drums. ;ts information available about Wisconsin's Civil War Tickets are $20.00 (adults)/$ 12.00 (children on July veterans. 7th) and may be reserved by calling (518) 585-2821.

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