Foto Friday 3/20

[ARW]

There are many monuments to individuals. Let's take a look at those this week. This is one of my favorites from Gettysburg, John Burns. If you don't know his story he was a 69 year old resident of Gettysburg. He took a gun from a wounded solider and joined the fight on the first day. He was wounded 3 times and convinced confederates he was just a poor farmer caught in the crossfire. He passed in 1872.

 

[ARW]

Manassas....There stands Jackson like a stone wall.

 

[Wallyfish]

Elizabeth Thorn - Evergreen Cemetery

 

[Buckeye Bill]

* Federal Admiral David Glasgow Farragut statue near his birthplace at Campbell's Station (Modern Farragut), Tennessee.

 

[bdtex]

Jefferson Davis, Vicksburg NMP:

 

[Kurt G]

Howard at Gettysburg . A nice monument to a mediocre general.

 

[Blessmag]

Vicksburg count?

 

[Blessmag]

From our gathering in Gettysburg....

 

[Blessmag]

To the common soldier, court house square Lincoln Illinois. Also cover of my second book.

 

[kitty o'cairre]

From our gathering in Gettysburg....

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any information on this one? 'WOW"

 

[JOHN42768]

Some very nice photos to brighten the day, thanks

 

[George Thomas]

Here is a monument dedicated to an individual (Historian Wilmer R. Turner) that is a little off the beaten path at the Sailor's Creek battlefield in Virginia (near Holt's Corner, north of the Overton-Hillsman house on the battlefield). Lee's Retreat driving tour is a real gem, so it was nice to see this person recognized with such an impressive monument.

The inscription reads:

W.R. Turner Memorial Trek

Erected in Memory of W.R. Turner, Historian of Blackstone, Virginia,
For His Work to Preserve the Historic Battlefields and Routes of General Robert E. Lee's Retreat

Centennial Year
1961
Piedmont Area Explorer Scouts, B.S.A.
Erected by Blackstone Virginia Lions Club

 

[DixieRifles]

African-American Civil War Memorial in DC.

Artillery group at Grant's Memorial located on the west side of the U.S. Capitol building.

 

[rebel brit]

Stonewall Jackson , Richmond VA.

Jefferson Davis, Montgomery AL.

 

[Blessmag]

any information on this one? 'WOW"

Our CWTalk speaker for this session. Guy in cowboy hat my traveling companion.

 

[Gettysburg Guide #154]

Col. Eliakim Sherrill, commanding the 126th NY, until taking command of the Brigade when Col. George Willard was killed on Day 2 at Gettysburg. Sherrill himself was killed on Day 3. The brigade had been surrendered at Harpers Ferry in September 1862, and later exchanged. Although dubbed the Harpers Ferry Cowards, they proved otherwise at Gettysburg, where they were instrumental in stopping Barksdale's Mississippians on Day 2m and helped repel Davis' Brigade during the so called Pickett's Charge on Day 3.

 

[Gettysburg Guide #154]

Here are some photos rom Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas.

As you may know, this is where Dr. Samual Mudd was held as a prisoner after being convicted of being a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination and the attempted assassination of Vice President Johnson and Secretery Seward. In addition to Mudd, convicted conspirators Edman Spangler, Michael O'Laughlin and Samuel Arnold were also held at Fort Jefferson. Mudd helped to attend the sick during a yellow fever epidemic on the island in 1867. The yellow fever took the life of O'Laughlin, but the others were released by then President Johnson.

 

[donna]

Great photos. Enjoyed seeing all of them.