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August 2006 Edition THE ASSOCIATION OF LICENSED BATTLEFIELD GUIDES, INC. VOLUME 24, ISSUE 4 Battlefield Dispatch AUGUST 2006 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: The ALBG Gets Better & Better! War Quotes 2 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 Little Round Top 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.
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