Posted on 05/07/2005 10:32:50 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
I have to say, Freepers are the best!
I had posted them a week ago, but, none of them came out unless perhaps you were able to go to the Kodak website and view my photo album.
I have enclosed a bit of info on the German POW grave marker's below the photo's of what I learned as it regarded who and what they did to be buried in the military cemetery.
If there is anything you would like to add, let me know.
As I said StarCMC was kind enough to host the photo's and I did add some info when you get to the German Grave marker's again thank you for giving the first thread a chance.
Interesting stuff. Thanks!
Actually a very nice pictoral essay. A bit rough on the bandwidth, but nice. Thank you for sharing.
Look forward to everyone's opinion good, bad or indifferent.
While I am not new to photography I am new to posting photo's on Free Republic. I certainly would not like to make it so difficult for folks to view if there are problems with bandwidth. Feel free to PM on how I might do it better when I post photo's in the future.
Glad you enjoyed the pictures. I found it very interesting, the old prison, the grave yard, the well sterile looking new prison, that I must add NEW prison. Which is really like a college campus. There is no HARD LABOR. Not like the stone by stone labor it took to build the first USDB.
That's good for a chuckle. Truthfully, I don't think that kind of thing is taught in the public schools any longer. Makes the kids feel bad about themselves.
The federal prison has 5 to 7 buffalo in its pen by the prison camp at any one time. The federal prison was built by the military prison inmates in 1897 brick by brick.
Fascinating pictures. I'll throw out a couple of guesses for you.
The barbed wire cage at the top of the staircase probably allowed people to smoke outside without being able to actually get away. It's cheaper to cage the top instead of the entire structure and it provides less areas for convicts to find weak spots.
The sun room is probably just some perk that the CO had installed. Bases have all sorts of stuff like that, I wouldn't think a military prison would be too much different. I had a CO in Korea that insisted everything he could see from his office window be color coordinated. Guess who got to do the painting? They can pretty much get anything they want when they get that flag on their car.:D
1827 - Colonel Henry Leavenworth chose site for new fort.
1875 - Fort chosen as the site for a military prison. Within a year, Ft. Leavenworth housed more than 300 prisoners in a remodeled supply depot building.
1894 - Secretary of War conceded to the House Appropriations Committee that War Department could do without the military prison.
1895 - Congress transferred the military prison from the War Department to the Department of Justice. (July 1)
1895 - July 1 - the Department of Justice took over the plant and inaugurated the United States Penitentiary. Commandant of the military prison, James V. Pope. Warden of the USP, James W. French.
1896 - House Judiciary Committee recommended that the facility be replaced.
1896 - June 10 - the Congress authorized a new federal penitentiary.
1897 - Spring (March) - Warden French marched prisoners every morning two and one-half miles from Ft. Leavenworth to the new site of the federal penitentiary. (Work went on for two and one-half decades).
1899 - July 1 - Robert W. McClaughry was appointed Leavenworth's 2nd Warden.
1901 - November 10 - Joseph Waldrupe was the first correctional officer to be killed (records dating back to 1901) in the line of duty at Leavenworth.
1903 - Enough space was under roof to permit the first 418 prisoners to move into the new federal penitentiary.
1904 - First Cell house completed
1906 - February 1, all prisoners had been transferred to the new facility, and the War Department appreciatively accepted the return of its prison.
1910 - May, the Attorney General approved construction of a separate cellblock for females on the penitentiary grounds - plan was later abandoned.
1913 - June, T. W. Morgan, editor of a newspaper in the small Kansas town of Ottawa, was appointed Leavenworth's 3rd Warden.
1919 - Construction of the cellblocks completed.
1926 - Construction of the shoe shops completed.
1928 - Construction of the brush and broom factory completed.
1930 - May - the Bureau of Prison's became a federal agency within the Department of Justice.
1930 - September 5 - Carl Panzram becomes the first to be executed (records dating back to 1927) by hanging at Leavenworth.
1934 - December 11 - President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the first federal prison industries as a public corporation.
1938 - August 12 - Robert Suhay and Glenn Applegate the first double execution (records dating back to 1927) by hanging at Leavenworth.
Thanks for the repost. I saw all of them before, but had to do a "view image" separately.
This is much better. Interesting photos and thanks for taking the effort to post these again.
Hey friend, if it were not for you, I would not be able to share these photo's with our fellow Freepers.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I hope you will enjoy the finished project!
Again, a huge applause for your generosity!
Howdy, Some may have a repeat PING, and I apologize for that, but I am attempting to share these photo's with my fellow Freepers.
I do love history. While I love military history, some installation's provide little when it comes to year's long ago.
So, Ft Leavenworth provided wonderful historic scenery to photograph. Some photo's speak for themselves. Other's I have done some research but only touching the surface.
Leavenworth, is rich in history. Beyond the United States Disciplinary Barracks, there are several prison's the most well known the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.
As I have said in the past, I hope you enjoy viewing Leavenworth through the lenses of my camera.
Should you want other's photo's or interested in something else let me know. I am always happy to assist a fellow Freeper!
Thanks for the great photos. It's grim topic matter, but it's good and necessary history. There are a few interesting historical sites around Ks. Have you ever been to or near Smoky Hill (AF/AG range), outside of Salina? I trained and trained others right next to it (Army reserve component--out of NBTC). We saw a castle-like structure about thirty miles from there, on another hill. I was told that it was an old Spanish fort. ...true?
I am not certain, but, will gladly look into that for you.
Yes, it is a grim subject matter but I to agree it is history and we should share this with our children.
I hope they learn it in school but if not, then perhaps one can review the thread with children and/or grandchildren and for you, enhancing this subject with your own reflections.
We are currently stationed at Ft Leavenworth, so I am learning as I go.
Great gallery with interesting info - thank you.
(His 'JAG' officer status I'm sure went over very well inside the 'Big House.')
It was amazing how he fell down some stairs on his way to Leavenworht - seems he had been mouthing off a wee bit much or something like that.
I don't know if they still mandate it, but years ago to help 'keep things clean' inside the prison, prisoners were required to polish the bottoms of their shoes as well as the tops.
On a sad note, America now has the bleak distinction of housing more prisoners than any other country in the free world. And a large percentage of them are illegal aliens.
Glad you were able to view and enjoy them this time round.
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