THE ASSOCIATION OF LICENSED BATTLEFIELD GUIDES, INC.

VOLUME 24, ISSUE 4 Battlefield Dispatch AUGUST 2006

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

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Library Committee By Sue Boardman teract with the Foundation folks and 2 get to know them a little better. I Visiting Scholar 3 By the time you read this, several think as we continue to plan for our Guide Board Report 4 important things will have taken future in the new facility, we will place and I hope you took the oppor- realize that we share many of the Association Day 4 tunity to participate. First was the same goals with both the Park and reception given for LBGs by the Get- the Foundation, and the ALBG New VC Preview 5 tysburg Foundation (Please see page should be viewed as a respected part- LBG News 6 5). Not only did it give us a chance ner in reaching these goals. New LBGs 6 The planning process is keeping Lincoln Museum 7 The President’s Column our Transition Team especially busy. They are reading through the surveys to see the new visitor center and mu- Becky Lyons 7 that Ed Suplee has been compiling to seum complex beginning to take get a good sense of your expectations Calendar 8 shape, we also had the chance to in- (Continued on page 3) CONTINUING ED PROGRAMS Gettysburg Hero Needs New Grave Stone Stay tuned to the Dispatch for dates on hero Lt. Charles these 2006 programs: E. Hazlett’s tombstone in Zanes- ville, Ohio is broken and weather- beaten. The Muskingum County • The Fighting at Civil War Association in Ohio is Monterey Pass by working to replace the stone. A LBG Mike Vallone replica of his original stone will cost approximately $5,000. So far, • ALBG visit to Civil about half of that amount has been War sites in Balti- raised. With the approval of the more, MD. Executive Council, the ALBG will make a donation, but individuals are • Association Day — invited to assist with this worthy The Battle of cause. Please send donations to: Monocacy with LBG John Cox The Muskingum County Civil War Association, Inc. Box 1863 • Civil War Em- Zanesville, Ohio 43202 balming by LBG Tony Ni-

castro A hero’s broken stone. Photo courtesy of the Or see Ellen Pratt in the Guide Muskingum County Civil War Association. Room. PAGE 2 VOLUME 24, ISSUE 4 War Quotes This one always gets me… pursuing and pursued, while the cries of victory fill a summer day? And after the “Who knows but it may be given to us, battle, then the slain and wounded will after this life, to meet again in the old arise, and all will meet together under quarters, to play chess and draughts, to the two flags, all sound and well, and get up soon to answer the morning roll there will be talking and laughter and call, to fall in at the tap of the drum for cheers, and all will say: Did it not seem drill and dress parade, and again to hast- real? Was it not as in the old days?” ily don our war gear while the monoto- nous patter of the long roll summons to From the Reminiscences of Berry Ben- battle? Who knows but again the old son, in the Southern Historical Collec- flags, ragged and torn, snapping in the tion, University of North Carolina. wind, may face each other and flutter,

Library Committee Report

By LBG Jim Clouse winter send some of their paperbacks The Battlefield Dispatch along with the library’s next rebinding. The library books taken for bind- A notice will be in the newsletter an- C/O ALBG, Inc. ing/rebinding have returned to our nouncing our next binding run. We PO Box 4152 shelves. Several guides took advan- also had some of our periodicals bound Gettysburg, PA 17325 tage of the opportunity to “piggy-back” and some of our “New York at Gettys- Email: [email protected] along with the library’s books to have burg” books rebound. Please use these their own books either repaired or old books with care as the paper is Editor Ellen Pratt hardbound. The library had many soft- very brittle. bound books made hardbound by the Production Staff “picture cover” method. In this proc- A new book in our library: Denise Doyle Ed Pratt ess the outside of the paperback is pho- Segregation in Death: Gettysburg’s tographed and reproduced on the out- Lincoln Cemetery by Betty Dorsey The Battlefield Dispatch is the side of the new hardback book. This is Myers. official communication of the a very inexpensive (about $7.00) way Association of Licensed Battlefield to have softbound books made more Any suggestions for new books are Guides, published in February, April, durable for long term use. Association always welcome. Donations of desir- June, August, October and December. members should consider this and next able books are also welcome. Material for potential publication should be forwarded to the editor via email or mail at the addresses listed above. Submission deadline is the Dispatch Submission Deadline Schedule 2006 20th day of the month prior to the publication month. All items published will be credited with Oct. issue Sept. 20 byline. Articles without byline are the Dec. issue Nov. 20 editor’s work. Copyright 2006 by ALBG, Inc. Submit material on disk to the editor, Ellen Pratt, via my mailbox All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be used or at the guide room or by email to [email protected]. If you reproduced without the prior written don’t have access to a computer, just talk to me in person or call permission of the publisher. me at 717.549.3061. BATTLEFIELD DISPATCH PAGE 3 The ALBG Gets Better & Better!

(Continued from page 1) Web site and it is outstanding! Fred Hawthorne has as we move forward. They (and I) really appreciate been working diligently with a web designer for sev- the amount of time many of you took to offer de- eral months to give us a professional presence on the tailed thoughts on the reservation system and how Internet. It wasn’t always easy, sometimes requiring we can not only avoid some of the weaknesses in the ten or more emails between them in a day. Please current system but also improve the process for the check it out at www.gettysburgtourguides.org, and future. These comments will be shared with you then give Fred a pat on the back when you see him. sometime after the July 31st deadline for their return. The next time you see Ralph Siegel, ask him to There are many changes coming for us as guides tell you what the battles of Gettysburg and Trenton and it is as important as ever to keep in touch by at- have in common. If you attended the last ALBG tending meetings and reading notices and newslet- meeting, you already know. ters. Our newsletter editor, Ellen Pratt, has become a In closing, I want to share an outsider’s percep- vital link in keeping us informed. She not only gets tion of our little village. During Bike Week, I was the Dispatch out on a timely basis, she frequently walking up Baltimore Street toward the square when sends out important notices via email. This method I saw a group of bikers parking their motorcycles is far superior to the note in the mailbox routine we and one of them was wearing a T-shirt that said used to depend upon and I encourage any guide who “Gettysburg: A Drinking Town with a History Prob- has not given Ellen a current email address to do so. lem”. MMMmmmm…… On a related matter, the ALBG once again has a

Visiting Scholar’s Dinner

By LBG Jim Clouse In his talk Mr. Kauffman elaborated on how he came to write his book. He explained how easy it The Association’s annual Visiting Scholar’s Din- was to find admirable qualities in Booth and how, ner was held Saturday evening, June 17th, at the Get- superficially, he was a most interesting and attractive tysburg Hotel. Former president Jim Hueting hosted individual to both men and women. However, Booth the event that had been superbly organized by was a master at manipulation and his machinations Maxine Hartlaub. Fifty individuals attended, about were entirely sinister and focused. The author be- evenly divided between guides and associates. This lieves an understanding of this uncanny ability of year’s featured speaker was Michael W. Kauffman, Booth’s is critical to understanding the Lincoln con- author of “American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and spiracies. Booth was extremely adept at involving the Lincoln Conspiracies” (Random House, New people in his intrigues without their fully realizing York, 2004, 508 pp.) the implications of such involvement with him. In his thirty years of research on the Lincoln con- Their entanglements in his web of deceit would leave spiracy, the author concluded that a fresh look at the them in a situation where they would be forced to lie evidence was warranted. The paradox of Booth— about even knowing him (such as Dr. Mudd) to avoid admired by so many but yet a cold blooded killer— being connected with his nefarious actions. Even the needed to be explained. Believing that the stupen- Vice President, Andrew Johnson, was a victim of dous amount of evidence has never been thoroughly Booth’s cleverness. By leaving a card in Johnson’s examined, the author looked at every document in the hotel mailbox implying a false intimacy with him, 11,000 pages of the Lincoln Assassination suspects Booth handed Johnson a problem he had to deal with file in the National Archives. He compiled a synop- the rest of his life. sis of each document in his computer and organized In his book the author concludes: “Booth immor- the data to sort out chronologies and to determine talized himself by staging one of history’s greatest who said what, when, and where. The result is a to- dramas. In the process, he accomplished what every tally new look at what has been much written about actor aspires to do: he made us wonder where the with some resulting controversial conclusions. play ended and reality began.” PAGE 4 VOLUME 24, ISSUE 4

Guide board comments and Visitor Center statistics

By John M. Fuss STATISTICS-- TOTALS CHANGE PERCENTAGE The number of guide board shifts credited for each Jan—Jun 2006 guide has been posted on the bulletin board. If there is Visitors at 470,232 -462 -0.1% any discrepancy with your records, please let me know. Visitor Center The number of visitors coming to the Visitor Center will drop considerably during the next few weeks. Now we enter the time when the guide board Car tours 5,964 -320 -5.1% person can help those waiting by being active and attentive at the guide station. Be ready to greet the visitors and tell the visitors about the guided tour. Van tours 612 -16 -2.5% Do not forget to make the announcement over the Public Address system when a guide is waiting to go out, and then every half hour thereafter if there still is Bus tours 3,995 -171 -4.1% any guide waiting. I have been hearing more and more complaints Cemetery walks 33 -16 -32.6% from guides because they are called by the guide board person 10 or 15 minutes before the scheduled time. I believe some of this is occurring because of the Total tours 10,604 -523 -4.7% instruction when the tour is booked. The visitor should be told to come back at the scheduled time. Guides Please note in the instructions how you handle the 5,249 -172 -3.2% situation when the visitor is more than 10 minutes available early.

Association Day 2006 Join us for “Battle of Monocacy” Saturday, October 21 LBG John Cox will lead a fascinating tour including walks of the trails on the Monocacy Battlefield, the Civil War Medicine Museum, Mount Olivet Cemetery and other Civil War sites in the Frederick, Maryland Area.

Cost: $50 includes admission to all sites, tour transportation and lunch. Participants may stop on the return to Gettysburg for dinner. Timeframe: Depart Cyclorama lot at 6:45 a.m. sharp. Return no earlier than 7 p.m.

To register: Mail or give your check for $50 payable to the ALBG to Treasurer Deb Novotny, c/o ALBG, PO Box 4152, Gettysburg, PA 17325, ATTN: Associates Day. Deadline: September 22, first-come, first-served!

Monocacy Tour Registration Form / Association Day 2006

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Gettysburg Foundation Reception

On Wednesday, July 26, the Guides were invited by welcoming for the visitor, as well as tiered to conceal cars the Gettysburg Foundation to attend a reception and pre- from view. view the new Visitor Center site. Approximately 50 As visitors near the building, they will encounter an guides and spouses attended the reception at the Cyclo- information kiosk that will be helpful for people who don’t rama auditorium. Attendees were greeted by Mr. Robert wish to visit the building but need to orient themselves, as C. Wilburn, President and CEO of the Gettysburg Founda- well as for people who arrive after business hours. Upon tion, and Mr. Robert A. Kinsley, Chairman of the Board of entering the building, visitors will enter a lobby that will the Gettysburg Foundation. be 8,000 square feet. The very first thing to greet visitors will be the restrooms and then the orientation film which Mr. Wilburn began with a bit of news. A group of will be on a continuous loop. conservators from Poland have been brought to Gettysburg to assist with the Cyclorama’s preservation. These conser- After Mr. Wilburn spoke, the Guides boarded a GTC vators have already saved two other Cycloramas, one in bus (expertly driven by Charlie) for a visit to the site. The Poland in the 1980s and another in Hungary in the 1990s. bus ride was dramatized in living stereo by Mr. Kinsley. It is unclear if the Cy- Kinsley illustrated much clorama restoration of what Mr. Wilburn had will be completed be- mentioned as well as fore the building is some interesting details, ready to open or if the including: opening will be de- •The new visitor center layed for the Cyclo- complex is approxi- rama; however, the mately 100 acres. Foundation believes the new Visitor Center •A somewhat scraggly will open in early tree is being lovingly 2008. tended to grow close to the new building to make Mr. Wilburn then it appear the building has gave a brief overview been there for some time. of what the visitor will experience from the •Pedestrians will be able time that they enter the to roam the complex Gettysburg area. without having to cross There will be a signifi- the paths of cars and cant increase in sign- The cinder blocks that will support the foundation of the new buses. age on the area high- Visitor Center can now be seen peeking above the earth. ways, especially Route •A hydro geomorpholo- 15, as the foundation expects that somewhere around 85% gist was employed by the foundation to consult of the visitors will arrive on that road. There will be a on a stream channel which traverses the complex. traffic light at the primary or Baltimore Pike entrance, but not at the Taneytown Road entrance. There will be no •Many friction primers were found on the complex during physical access from Hunt Avenue. Cars and buses will the process of studying the historical significance be separated almost immediately on entering the complex, of the site. However, most of the primers were cars will continue westward while buses will have two reenactor primers. choices. They may take a left and go to a building that will consist of restrooms and a lounge for bus drivers. •An unexploded Confederate shell was uncovered and was This area will have approximately 60 bus parking spaces promptly removed by a team from Letterkenny as well as a few car spaces for chaperones who have Military Base. driven cars. Buses that are only dropping off riders or picking up a guide would take a right and continue closer •The heating and cooling system for the building will em- to the building. The parking lots will have approximately ploy geothermal technology (the system will in- 700+ spaces, about 3 times what is currently available. clude 200 wells approximately 400 - 500 feet The parking areas will be landscaped to be pleasant and deep). PAGE 6 VOLUME 24, ISSUE 4 ALBG news briefs for Summer 2006 Belated Congratulations to the following The ALBG would like to welcome the newest LBGs who exceeded 500 tours last year: LBG Anthony Kellon of Cleveland, John Fuss, 754 Ohio to the force. Bobby Housch, 537 Jim Clouse, 522 Everyone is invited to check out John Tudor, 512 our new web site at www.gettysburgtourguides.org !! Congratulations also to If you register, you can even view the LBG Jim Roubal, who as a Dispatch there. Neato!! part time Guide exceeded 200 tours with a total of 242. Good Job, Guys!! ALBG Welcomes New Guides to the Force Hope Coates children, Amanda (17), Ryan (15) and Brittany (13).

Hope Coates could hardly avoid a fascination Keith Hay with the Civil War. Her father is Jerry Coates, Civil War Author, Former President of the Friends of the Keith is a graduate of the University of Michigan National Parks at Gettysburg & Former National with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Before earning his Commander of the North-South Skirmish Associa- license, he owned a series of antique stores, two in tion. The first photo of Hope taken outside of her the Detroit area and one in Madison, Wisconsin. home was taken in front of the 4th Cav- Keith and his wife Nancy are joined by two cats, Na- alry Monument when she was only three months old. tasha and Kira (17).

Hope also has five ancestors that fought in the Keith fell in love with the battlefield on a family war, the most notable of the five was her great-great- visit at the age of ten. He has been studying the Civil great uncle Nathan Hanson who was killed in the War since that visit, occasionally, to his detriment. charge of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery at Peters- When Keith was in the 6th grade, he got into trouble burg. with a music teacher because he refused to learn “Dixie”! Keith does enjoy other types of music, A graduate of Westminster (Maryland) High however. He collects bebop and jazz records. His School, Hope was a classmate of LBG Tim Smith. favorites include Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. After high school, Hope spent 15 years in retailing & In his spare time, he also enjoys watching baseball. wholesaling. Keith’s most rewarding tour thus far involved Since earning her license, her most rewarding ex- leading a woman to the 73rd New York Regimental perience in guiding was a tour with a little boy Monument. The lady had an ancestor in that regi- named Reggie who has Attention Deficit / Hyperac- ment who was wounded at Gettysburg. Upon reach- tivity disorder. Hope’s son Ryan has a borderline ing the site, her eyes welled with tears. Attention Deficit Disorder and Hope’s experience with that disorder allowed her to help Reggie earn his A tour of a different sort was with a woman from coveted Junior Ranger Patch. A lovely thank you Uniontown, Pennsylvania. This lady only wanted to note and photo were her reward. hear about the War of 1812. Her questions all in- volved that war and not this battle!! As if to come full circle, Hope is engaged to LBG Rich Kohr, and her family is completed by her three BATTLEFIELD DISPATCH PAGE 7 A Visit to the Lincoln Museum, Springfield, Illinois

By LBG John Fuss In the Civil War section, there is a presentation “The Civil War by Year per Minute.” There is a huge In June, Sarah and I visited the Lincoln Museum map of the eastern United States. In four and a half that opened in the Spring of 2005. It covers an entire minutes, it covers the period from the date of Lin- block in downtown Springfield. The Lincoln Presi- coln’s election to the surrender of the last Confederate dential Library covers the adjacent block. force. As each state secedes, the color turns red. That as the Union armies advance, the color changes. Each There is a large plaza in the center of the building. major battle is highlighted on the map by a two sec- Eleven galleries or theaters go off from this plaza. ond appearance. The shows the There are galleries covering Lincoln’s Confederate color in Pennsylvania for a early life, Pre-Presidential years and the few seconds. All the while, there is a White House years. This last gallery is running total of Union and Confederate large and covers his actions in the Civil casualties. It goes so fast that it is hard War. to comprehend the entire exhibit. I watched it four times! The two theaters offer continuous half hour presentations entitled The museum is state of the art. There “Lincoln’s Eyes” (the story of his life) is one gallery with changing exhibits. and “Ghosts of the Library.” The first is When we were there, it was about all a three-screen theater with action in front and on the the First Ladies from Martha Washington to Laura two sides. It is a fully automated theatrical special Bush. Of course, there is also a Gift Shop and related effect spectacular telling of Lincoln’s life. The second facilities. is a dramatic and magical special effects presentation that allows the library’s storyteller appear to cause I recommend a stop there if you are traveling in vapors to form images that interact with his presenta- that area. tion. It is hard to describe, but very well done. A Message from Becky Lyons

Dear Friends, gether we have walked many miles of battlefield in awe of the men who fought at Gettysburg. Your collective knowl- Thirty-seven years is a long time. When I started to edge of this battle has always amazed me. I always knew work for the National Park Service, battlefield guides were that I could count on you for help with visitor questions I $5.00 for a two-hour tour. The guide room was in the Cy- could not answer. Thank you for always being ready to clorama Center and all of the guides stayed in the break share your knowledge. room until called. Prof. Fidler sat in the back and played solitaire while he waited for a trip. We buzzed the break I would also like to thank you for your generous dona- room twice for a guide. Mary Ruth Thomas was the guide tion to my travel fund. Believe me, it will be put to good supervisor. When we all moved over to the Visitor Center, use. I am planning a trip to Ireland in the next couple of Nora Saum took over the supervision. Then it was John years. And, there is always Disney World. Andrews and finally Clyde Bell. Tours have branched out as well, from the basic two hours, to bus tours, to walking I hope to continue to see you all. I cannot stay away tours, to bicycle tours and horse tours. There have been from the field for long. tours that lasted half an hour and others that have lasted all day. I watched all of this from the front desk, and for a Thank you again, with sincerest regards, number of years, from the guide board. It has been a pleas- ure. I say that now from the Lazyboy in my living room where I do not have to deal with late tour groups. I have Becky Lyons read your books and followed your discussions. And to- The Association of Licensed Battlefield Guides PO Box 4152

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