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Nice picture. Looks like dog taking a nap. Maybe he was tired from fetching that stick.
I had an incident that happened to me last September involving an all-white German Shepard named, Thunder.Something I read that seems to belong to @LoyaltyOfDogs thread here.
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went."
--Will Rogers
Amen.
Sincerely,
Unionblue
Looks like a 'pooch' to me.Is this a puppy that the woman is holding in her left hand? (Thanks to Garry Adelman's Civil War Page on FB for sharing this portrait from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010650364/.) Someone suggested the little pet might be a kitten, but in the brightened close-up below, it looks like the little animal's snout is more pronounced than a kitten's. Thoughts?
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No problem spotting himSomeone mentioned a dog on a pontoon bridge and I couldn't resist. The caption on this picture read, "Broadway Landing, Va. Pontoon bridge across the Appomattox."
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"With weeping and with laughter still is the story told,Someone mentioned a dog on a pontoon bridge and I couldn't resist. The caption on this picture read, "Broadway Landing, Va. Pontoon bridge across the Appomattox."
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I can't find the pooch. But the president might be somewhere in the shadows here (though I doubt it):Here's a picture that Garry Adelman featured on his "Garry Adelman's Civil War" FB page recently. I haven't spotted the dog yet, so someone please shout out when you see him! Another reason I'm intrigued by this picture is Garry's mention that Abraham Lincoln is shown in this scene, taken at Fort Monroe, Virginia, in 1864. Makes me wonder, how rare that Abraham Lincoln and a dog (though not his own and not together with Lincoln) both appeared in a photograph! (Here's link to the image in the LOC.)
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Looks like he might have stopped to read the sign.Someone mentioned a dog on a pontoon bridge and I couldn't resist. The caption on this picture read, "Broadway Landing, Va. Pontoon bridge across the Appomattox."
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I can't find the pooch. But the president might be somewhere in the shadows here (though I doubt it):
The gent in the stovepipe is too "one in the crowd" inconspicuous to be Lincoln in such a posed photograph -- they would have put him front and center..
Thank you for sharing this, @Llewellyn. I didn't know the story of Horatius and his brave Roman comrades. That would be a good name for our watchdog on the pontoon bridge."With weeping and with laughter still is the story told,
How well Horatius kept the bridge in the brave days of old."