The Original Bad Bob Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 These are some well known photographs, some I had not seen before, but all are crystal clear on this site. Well worth a look! http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivilWar/New/Originals2/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Man Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Thanks for sharing these pic. Many times people have no idea what the real face of war looks like. I would have loved to see pictures about the Alamo but that was a ways before photographs time. Texas Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Windshadow Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Thanks for the link I do wish the chap who has done all this work had done another few steps of zoom but it has let me recall stories about the "late unpleasantness between the states such as this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Burns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cree vicar dave Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Bob, Thanks for the post. Cree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rippin kid Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 I rebuilt the bridge 7th one down on the left 10 years ago. It now called the Cabin John Bridge. It is realy a aqueduct to bring water form the Potomac to DC in a 12 hand made brick tunnel with a road built on top. The original stone was cut locally and hoisted to the top to the structure on barges. Now the stream it covered runs in pipes and the Cabin John Parkway run underneath. The stone for the rebuild was cut in WI and we reassembled it like a giant jig saw puzzle. We where pouring one of the approach lanes on 9-11 and could see the smoke rising from the Pentagon I'll never forget that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olen Rugged Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 An extraordinary look at the way the war ground up the landscape....and everything in it. Olen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Bad Bob Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 Thanks for the link I do wish the chap who has done all this work had done another few steps of zoom but it has let me recall stories about the "late unpleasantness between the states such as this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Burns Somebody aught to write a book or make a movie about John L. Burns. What a story! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Great assembly of photgraphs ~ One more pic....Here is my great-great grandfather Joseph Cooke Jackson - He eventually rose to the rank of Brig Gen of the Pennsylvania USV. http://i275.photobuc...enJCJackson.jpg JACKSON, Joseph Cooke, lawyer, born in Newark, New Jersey, 5 August, 1835. He was graduated at Yale in 1857, and subsequently studied law at Newark and at the law schools of Harvard and New York university. He was admitted to the bar in 1860, and began practice in New York city, but at the beginning of the civil war was appointed aide-de-camp to General Robert Anderson, and ordered to Kentucky. Subsequently he was commissioned 2d lieutenant in the 1st New Jersey regiment, and appointed aide to General Philip Kearny. While serving on the latter's staff he declined the colonelcy of the 61st New York regiment. In December, 1861, he was ordered to join the division staff of General William B. Franklin. In the summer of 1862 he was promoted to captain for gallant conduct during the seven days' conflict before Richmond, and assigned to the staff of the 6th corps of the Army of the Potomac. In the following December he was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the 6th New Jersey volunteers, and was brevetted colonel for "meritorious conduct" at the battle of Fredericksburg, in the same month. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers on 13 March, 1865. At the close of his term of service, he was appointed by the War department a commissioner of the United States naval credits, and succeeded in having 1,900 naval enlistments from New Jersey credited to the quota of troops enlisted from that state, thus rendering a draft unnecessary. Governor Joel Parker said, in a message to the legislature, that the state had in consequence been saved the expenditure of nearly $1,000,000. General Jackson restarted the practice of law in New York city, and in 1870 was appointed assistant district-attorney for the southern district of New York. Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright © 2001 VirtualologyTM GG ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Bad Bob Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 Very cool GG. Did you follow the tradition? Are you a lawyer too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Very cool GG. Did you follow the tradition? Are you a lawyer too? No, I am in sales...I think I am lowest on the totem pole in regards to my family....but I am proud of where I came from GG ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest coyote Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Thanks fer sharin', These are just (really) sum fine photos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairshake Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 DOC Windshadow, We have another name for it here in the South. It is referred to As THE WAR OF NORTHERN AGGRESSION. Being before the time of drive thru eateries, the one thing that stood out is how slim or down right skinny the soldiers are. That is both sides even though you hear that the North had plenty of supplies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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