Tom, Â Yes, use this info as you wish. Here is the link to the book: Â ...
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RoteBaron
RoteBaron@...
Jul 2, 2010 3:01 am
On Thursday July 1, five inmates from the Maryland Correctional Training Center cut weeds in the Piper orchard as dignitaries from the Maryland Division of...
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Stephen
jeffcowvplan...
Jul 2, 2010 12:32 pm
Steve.. Have you seen the portrait photo of Elias Recher at the WCHS collection? I ran across it in their photo files. You are the Recher expert...are you...
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s_recker
Jul 2, 2010 1:08 pm
Steve, Thanks for the note. Very interesting. I am aware of the stereo of him with his photo wagon and the numerous portraits in the Recher family file, but I...
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s_recker
Jul 2, 2010 6:14 pm
If you are talking about the black and white 8x10 copy print of him with the big beard, I have no doubt that it is him, simply by comparing it to the stereo....
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Stephen
jeffcowvplan...
Jul 3, 2010 2:40 am
Steve.. This one shows him (assuming it is him) as a young man, by the clothing I would estimate the late 1850s.....clean shaven on the front of the face, but...
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s_recker
Jul 4, 2010 12:37 pm
Steve, Thanks, but I have scans of those images already for my book on early photography at Antietam coming if fall of 2012 (shameless plug). I have no...
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s_recker
Jul 4, 2010 2:22 pm
Steve, I got to thinking. The middle photo is an albumen which, though invented around 1850, really came into vogue in studios in 1855, about the time Recher...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Jul 6, 2010 12:27 am
Steve (Recker), From reading the earlier post, are you and your son descendants of the Rechers? Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian, either by...
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Stephen Recker
s_recker
Jul 6, 2010 1:54 am
No, no relation. I was intrigued, though, when I found out that the patriarch of Antietam photographers was named Recher, and often spelled his name Recker. No...
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DPowell334@...
dpowell334
Jul 9, 2010 11:37 am
Tom Clemens, if you are around, could you drop me an email? Dave Powell [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Harry Smeltzer
hjs212002
Jul 10, 2010 6:46 pm
Subscribers to Civil War History may be interested in this interview with the new editor of the journal. ...
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RoteBaron
RoteBaron@...
Jul 11, 2010 3:05 am
From Hagerstown Herald-Mail: When Lindsay Miles and Corey Wolfensberger told their pastor they wanted to get married at Antietam National Battlefield, he took...
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Harry Smeltzer
hjs212002
Jul 11, 2010 2:12 pm
Gettysburg College has announced the topics for the 2011 Civil War Institute Conference. ...
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ScottH
antietamcoll...
Jul 15, 2010 1:59 pm
Has anyone ever identified which Confederate battery lost the limber in the foreground of the famous Alexander Gardner photo taken on September 19, 1862 with...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Jul 15, 2010 2:08 pm
Dear Scott, To the best of my knowledge, that destroyed limber was in the area where Stephen Dill Lee had posted his artillery battalion, that later became...
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ScottH
antietamcoll...
Jul 15, 2010 3:02 pm
Thanks "Gerry." The limber most definitely belonged to one of Stephen D. Lee's batteries, but which one? There's a few possibilities. I've seen recent maps...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Jul 15, 2010 3:51 pm
Scott, I don't remember reading anything about which battery might have lost it in the BB letters, but will let you know if I find anything. Thomas G. Clemens...
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Harry Smeltzer
hjs212002
Jul 16, 2010 8:29 pm
Interview with the editor of "The Maryland Campaign of September, 1862, Vol.!" http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/interview-dr-thomas-clemens-the ...
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RoteBaron
RoteBaron@...
Jul 16, 2010 11:17 pm
I only can offer this, which is from Frassanito's "ANTIETAM: The Photographic Legacy of America's Bloodiest Day": "Stationed during the battle where the...
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ScottH
antietamcoll...
Jul 17, 2010 12:06 am
Thanks Tom, Frassanito's book was one of the first places I looked. However, according to Manning's report, Parker's Battery lost "rear chests 12-pounder...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Jul 19, 2010 5:57 pm
Scott, Frasanito is correct that Parker's occupied that spot. Krick the Elder mentions it in his book on Parker's battery, although, sadly, he refers to the...
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ScottH
antietamcoll...
Jul 19, 2010 11:31 pm
Tom, Thanks much for the information. It's appreciated. Where can I find the most accurate maps of the battle that would detail the positions of the batteries...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Jul 20, 2010 1:33 am
Scott, I don't think you'll find out. Carman's map only shows the battalion, or at least part of it, but not individual batteries. We know Woolfolk was on...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Jul 20, 2010 4:15 am
Dear Scott, You can try the website for Antietam on the Web or the Library of Congress holdings of the Cope-Carman maps. Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be...
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RoteBaron@...
Jul 29, 2010 11:58 am
From Hagerstown Herald-Mail (July 28, 2010): 60-ACRE PROPERTY NEAR BATTLEFIELD APPROVED FOR EASEMENT A 60-acre property near Antietam National Battlefield...
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Harry Smeltzer
hjs212002
Aug 3, 2010 3:42 pm
Harpers Ferry needs your help. http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/key-harpers-ferry-battlefield-l and-threatened/ Harry [Non-text portions of this...
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Stephen
jeffcowvplan...
Aug 3, 2010 4:00 pm
Harry... The posting fails to point out that the water and sewer lines at Bolivar-South were installed in easements that the owner retained when they sold the...
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Harry Smeltzer
hjs212002
Aug 3, 2010 4:34 pm
Stephen, Would you mind terribly posting this to the comments section of my blog? If I can get confirmation on what you say about the digging, I'll amend the ...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Aug 3, 2010 4:51 pm
True enough Steve, but you know as well as I do that the NPS had the requirement to perform a 106 Enviromental Impact Assessment & an Archeological Assessment...
