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Ambulance train at Harewood Hospital | Period Photos Examinations Thanks for these I'd come across the first, looking for DC-themed photos, but not the second, both very nice Gives you the willies thinking of all the wounded from 'x' battles those wagons brought to Harewood- I guess from hospital tents on the field? Not always a great job, either, driving one Just reading where the Confederate's ambulance train impressed all the drivers into a pretty
Stonewall - Jim Lewis Stonewall Jacksons servant. | Famous People of . . . In an editorial written by local newspaper editor Doug Harwood, it was reported that, " when Stonewall Jackson's statue was being erected in 1891, an Englishman offered to pay for a monument to mark the grave of one of his slaves [sic Jim Lewis] The town ignored his offer "
Ironclad - American Civil War Forums As he saw it, the job's administrative responsibilities didn't leave enough time for experimentation Instead, the Navy Department made Captain Andrew A Harwood ordnance chief Harwood handled the administration and deferred to Dahlgren's expertise in R D " That brings us up to March 8th-9th of 1862 and the Battle of Hampton Roads
Insignia I Found Today in Box of Old Items I found this insignia today in a box of old items in the Archives I administer I assume it's CW-related, but I don't know Two members of the Avery family of Louisiana, whose Archives it is, served in the Confederate military as officers: Dudley Avery, who was an officer in the infantry (18th
Confederate Uniforms - The Crenshaw Woolen Works From the Richmond Enquirer, 10 17 1861 THE CRENSHAW WOOLEN COMPANY - Second in importance as an auxiliary to Southern independence, scarcely to the Tredegar Iron Works, and the Virginia Armory, is the Crenshaw Woolen Company, the factory of which immediately adjoins the Tredegar works
Civil War fife and drum music question Several of his photographs are in railroad books written by H Harwood and Ames although credits were given to others (Dad gave pictures to the employees of Washington Old Dominion RR and that is how they got into the books)
Proposals for Chemical Weapons during the American Civil War Harwood represented a firm that manufac-tured sulfuric acid, “but it is the furthest from my intention,” he said, “to make this a means of disposing of our acid ” John Dobyns54 from Kentucky urged the U S Secretary of War to employ fire engines to spray the enemy with sulfuric acid
Images of Black CSA POWs at Point Lookout? Hey all, I know there were about 14 black confederate POWs at Point lookout here in MD I am doing a research project for school about them, consequently I want to "hit it out of the park" Does anyone know if there are images of the Black Confederate POWs at the time, either in prison or
Russian Fleet Shows Support. . . . | Naval War - At Sea Along Inland . . . It looks like Geo-politics was alive and well back in the 1860's Russia sends a fleet of ships to our waters to show support for the Northern war effort and to send a signal to England and France about the support for the Southern Rebels The following I found on the web about this Russian
Casualties at Antietam | Antietam Sharpsburg | Page 3 Dr David Hacker has proposed and provided some convincing data that the old figure of 620,000 deaths in the ACW is far too low an estimate and a closer figure would be between 700,000 to 800,000 If that in fact is correct how does effect the number of casualties at Antietam, Shiloh and the