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1. CAPPCW_140718_06.JPG: Bob Moretti California Assembly Speaker 1971-1974 "Any politician who asks voters to trust him must be prepared to say forthrightly what he will do with that trust and then stand willing to be judged on his performance." - Bob Moretti
2. CAPPCW_140718_09.JPG: The people of the state of California remember with pride and gratitude Bob Moretti (1936-1984) elected to the California state legislature 1964. Served with distinction as Speaker of the Assembly 1971-1974.
3. CAPPCW_140718_26.JPG: This grove of trees as saplings, transplanted from Southern battlefields was dedicated to the memory of Union Veterans of the Civil War and presented to the State of California by the ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic of California and Nevada.
4. CAPPCW_140719_04.JPG: Thomas Starr King 1824-1864 Courageous and inspirational San Francisco minister, stalwart defender of the Union during the Civil War, advocate of racial justice, admired educator and pioneering nature writer Starr King was a Unitarian preacher credited with keeping California from seceding from the Union at the dawn of the Civil War. His ceaseless advocacy for the Union cause would earn him the title "Apostle of Liberty." This prominent location welcomes visitors to the Civil War Grove, the first monument in Capitol Park. The grove was dedicated on May 1, 1897, and honors all those who fought in the war.
5. CAPPCW_140719_15.JPG: This grove of trees as saplings, transplanted from Southern battlefields was dedicated to the memory of Union Veterans of the Civil War and presented to the State of California by the ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic of California and Nevada.
6. CAPPCW_140719_34.JPG: Civil War Symbol Yields To Time A STUMP IS ALL THAT REMAINS of a Silver Maple transplanted from the Battlefield of Chattanooga. In 1897 the sapling was planted here as part of a Memorial Grove dedicated to Union soldiers who fought in the Civil War. The first war memorial to grace Capital Park, the Grove was conceived by Mrs. Eliza Holloway Waggoner of Sacramento, who led her sisters from the local chapter of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic in bringing more than forty trees from battlefields of the Civil War. Having survived beyond its years, the noble tree finally succumbed to rot and weakened branches. After serving for 101 years as a living reminder of the debt we owe to the brave veterans of that terrible and costly war, the Silver Maple was removed. The Silver Maple (Acer Saccharinum), native to the eastern United States, takes its name from the silvery gray color of the underside of its leaves. Each leaf is five lobed and three to six inches wide. Leaves turn yellow or a combination of yellow and orange in autumn. The limbs of the Silver Maple ascend sharply upward with side branches dropping gracefully, ultimately reaching a height of up to one hundred feet with a spread up to seventy-five feet. The memorial grove was planted to honor such men as these four members of the California Battalion of Calvary, who made the ultimate sacrifice to preserve the Union in the Civil War. Led by Major D.W.C. Thompson of Sonoma County, the California Battalion was raised and recruited to represent California on the distant battlefields of the East. "Accept this gift of trees, guard them well; ...and as the years shall come and go, and as your children's children shall walk amidst the shadows of this Memorial Grove, ...may they become better citizens, more zealous patriots and may they know war nor more." -- Eliza Holloway Waggoner, Memorial Grove Dedication, May 1, 1897
7. CAPPCW_140719_40.JPG: A STUMP IS ALL THAT REMAINS of a Silver Maple transplanted from the Battlefield of Chattanooga. In 1897 the sapling was planted here as part of a Memorial Grove dedicated to Union soldiers who fought in the Civil War. The first war memorial to grace Capital Park, the Grove was conceived by Mrs. Eliza Holloway Waggoner of Sacramento, who led her sisters from the local chapter of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic in bringing more than forty trees from battlefields of the Civil War. Having survived beyond its years, the noble tree finally succumbed to rot and weakened branches. After serving for 101 years as a living reminder of the debt we owe to the brave veterans of that terrible and costly war, the Silver Maple was removed.
8. CAPPCW_140719_43.JPG: The Silver Maple (Acer Saccharinum), native to the eastern United States, takes its name from the silvery gray color of the underside of its leaves. Each leaf is five lobed and three to six inches wide. Leaves turn yellow or a combination of yellow and orange in autumn. The limbs of the Silver Maple ascend sharply upward with side branches dropping gracefully, ultimately reaching a height of up to one hundred feet with a spread up to seventy-five feet.
9. CAPPCW_140719_45.JPG: "Accept this gift of trees, guard them well; ...and as the years shall come and go, and as your children's children shall walk amidst the shadows of this Memorial Grove, ...may they become better citizens, more zealous patriots and may they know war nor more." -- Eliza Holloway Waggoner, Memorial Grove Dedication, May 1, 1897
10. CAPPCW_140719_47.JPG: The memorial grove was planted to honor such men as these four members of the California Battalion of Calvary, who made the ultimate sacrifice to preserve the Union in the Civil War. Led by Major D.W.C. Thompson of Sonoma County, the California Battalion was raised and recruited to represent California on the distant battlefields of the East.
11. CAPPCW_140719_49.JPG: "... these honored dead ..."
12. CAPPCW_140719_66.JPG: Civil War Memorial Grove 1897 Maple Chattanooga Tennessee
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Description of Subject Matter: A Tribute to Civil War Veterans
The Civil War Memorial Grove, a living and growing monument, pays tribute to the thousands of men who lost their lives in the American Civil War.
The Grove has trees from the Manassas, Harpers Ferry, Savannah, Five Forks, Yellow Tavern, and Vicksburg battlefields. Some trees come from other Vine and Leaves Element from PlaqueCivil War-related sites including the tombs of Presidents McKinley and Lincoln.
The idea for the memorial grove dates to 1896, 31 years after the Confederate Army's surrender marked the end of the American Civil war. Mrs. Eliza Waggoner and the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of veterans' wives and daughters, led the effort to create the memorial. Although California had sided with the Union Army, they felt the grove should represent all those who fought in the four-year war. Their concept was a living memorial featuring trees from important battlefields and other sites connected to the war.
The Civil War Memorial Grove was the first monument in Capitol Park. Nearly a year went into planning, fundraising, and assembling trees from around the country. On May 1, 1897, the grove was dedicated in a ceremony attended by several thousand onlookers. As children waved American flags, Judge Walling, Past Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, shared these words:
"This grove is intended to perpetuate the memory of those who gave up their lives that their country might live. They were different from other soldiers, and simply fought for the honor of the old flag and to show that the republic depended on the valor and patriotism of its citizens for its perpetuity."
At the time of the ceremony, the trees were just saplings, each marked with a tag naming the battlefield from which it came. A sapling from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania stood beside one from Shiloh, Tennessee; a sapling from Lexington, Kentucky next to one from the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia. In all 40 different ...More...
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2014 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Trips this year: three Civil War Trust conferences (Winchester, VA, Nashville, TN, and Atlanta, GA), Michigan to visit mom in the hospice before she died and then a return trip after she died, and my 9th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City, Sacramento, Oakland, and Los Angeles). Ego strokes: Paul Dickson used one of my photos as the author photo in his book "Aphorisms: Words Wrought by Writers". Number of photos taken this year: just over 470,000.
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