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Selected Civil War Photographs Collection: Part 2
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| July 6, 2007
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Posted on 07/06/2007 7:37:56 PM PDT by indcons
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To: indcons
Thank you! It never occurred to me even to wonder how they transported pontoon boats :-).
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posted on
07/07/2007 3:48:40 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
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posted on
07/07/2007 4:51:41 AM PDT
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Professional Engineer
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To: dixiechick2000
VERY NICE PIX!
free dixie,sw
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posted on
07/07/2007 8:08:26 AM PDT
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stand watie
("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
To: dixiechick2000; stainlessbanner
those pics really come to life up on a screen like that
that Gettysburg pic of the three Reb prisoners sitting on the split pole redoubt was an inspiration for one of Winslow Homer’s illustrations about defiance or something....
lots of Yankee blood shed up in those fields across the river behind the bucolic village of Fredricksburg....perhaps their finest hour...futile but gallant...sort of their Franklin
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posted on
07/07/2007 10:05:20 AM PDT
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wardaddy
(Islam and Amnesty are the enemy)
To: TheZMan; Texas Mulerider; Oorang; freedomfiter2; SWEETSUNNYSOUTH; BnBlFlag; catfish1957; ...
Dixie Ping
Thanks for the flag to this thread DC2000 and wardaddy.
To: EdReform
To: wardaddy; dixiechick2000
I love that photo of the quaker guns. Southern ingenuity fooled the blue coats a few times.
To: stainlessbanner
To: indcons; All
Thanks for the post. I know these images have no copyright restrictions on them, but does anyone know where I can download Hi-rez files of them?
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posted on
07/08/2007 6:55:35 AM PDT
by
smug
(Free Ramos and Compean:)
To: indcons
I'm be in Strawberry Plains tomorrow and will hunt this bridge............
"[Knoxville, Tenn., vicinity. Military bridge at Strawberry Plains and a fort in the distance, seen from north bank of the Holston"
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posted on
07/08/2007 7:08:46 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Happiness is a down sleeping bag)
To: smug
Yes, you can. Go to the site and look for hi-resolution JPEG versions. They have hi-res pics for each photo.
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posted on
07/08/2007 7:16:00 AM PDT
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indcons
(My 2-step solution to stopping terrorism: defuse the bombs; deport the muslims.)
To: indcons
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posted on
07/08/2007 12:03:01 PM PDT
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smug
(Free Ramos and Compean:)
To: indcons
The difficult strategic situation of the federal armies after Chickamauga My g-g-g-Grandfather joined a Wisconsin regiment and became a prisoner of the Confederates during the battle of Chickamauga. He spend a few years in Andersonville and other prisons, but survived to tell the tale and lived a long, productive live afterwards as a farmer.
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07/08/2007 12:09:14 PM PDT
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Fitzcarraldo
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To: indcons; stainlessbanner
Excellent thread and thanks for the ping.
My grandmother's parents ran the Franklin County, N.C., poor farm where quite a few of the residents were elderly Confederate soldiers. As a child she loved helping them tend the gardens and hearing their stories. I also loved hearing their stories through her.
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07/08/2007 2:50:52 PM PDT
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Oorang
(Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
To: bert
bert,
Let us know how your trip went, if you don’t mind. Did you find this bridge?
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posted on
07/08/2007 4:16:47 PM PDT
by
indcons
(My 2-step solution to stopping terrorism: defuse the bombs; deport the muslims.)
To: Oorang
What a treasure. Write those stories down to pass along to the next generation.
To: indcons
Here are three current photos of the bridge at Strawberry Plains taken on the southside of the river. The original photo above was taken on the opposite bank that is not readily accessable..
The first shows the old pier thought to be part of the civil war bridge adjacent to the current pier
The second shows the plaque on the current bridge indicating 1907 construction
The third is of the current railway bridge serving local mining interests.
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posted on
07/10/2007 10:10:08 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Happiness is a down sleeping bag)
To: bert
These pics are so cool, bert. Thanks for sharing them.
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posted on
07/10/2007 1:28:49 PM PDT
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indcons
(My 2-step solution to stopping terrorism: defuse the bombs; deport the muslims.)
To: indcons
Great pics. Thanks for the history lesson!
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posted on
07/10/2007 1:32:39 PM PDT
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Palladin
(NO Shamnesty!!!)
To: indcons
Thanks for the pics. I’m currently playing a terrific strategic level civil war game from Ageod, and am re-reading Shelby Foote’s trilogy. I shouldn’t be surprised to find Free Republic as a resource for great civil war info.
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posted on
07/10/2007 10:29:07 PM PDT
by
M1911A1
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