BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Civil War

DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Civil War:

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1. NMHMCW_970904_01.JPG: Walter Reed Army Medical Center; Sickles display Here's the box displaying the Daniel Sickles artifacts. In 1859, Sickles had shot the son of Francis Scott Key who was having an affair with Sickles' wife. He was acquitted. During the Civil War, he had fought in the Peninsular Campaign, at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. A Corps commander at Chancellorsville, he was sent to pursue Stonewall Jackson's "retreating" troops, which left the Union troops open to the real attack from Jackson on their flank and destroyed the Union offensive. A Corps commander at Gettysburg, Sickles was ordered to cover the Union left near the Round Tops. He advanced his corps to an exposed position covering the Wheatfield, the Peach Orchard, and Devil's Den. In such a position, his troops bore the brunt of James Longstreet's Confederate attack. He was severely wounded by a cannon ball which led to the amputation of his right leg. He donated both the cannon ball and the amputated leg to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Here is the display case which shows the shattered leg, the cannon ball, and several pictures of Sickles visiting the leg every year on the anniversary of the amputation.
2. NMHMCW_970904_02.JPG: Walter Reed Army Medical Center; Photography exhibit Here's one of the photographs on display at the Walter Reed Medical Center. It shows the disfiguration resulting from a bullet wound to the head. There are lots of "interesting" photographs like this in the museum.
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1997 photos: Since 1984, I've lived in Silver Spring, Maryland. From 1981 to 2002, photos were taken using a Pentax ME Super camera. From 1989 to 2002, I was doing all pictures as prints (instead of slides which I had grown up on). In 1997, at the age of 40, my photo obsession began and I started taking thousands of photos per year. In September, 2002, I switched to digital cameras and the number of photos exploded. Image quality is going to be variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints. The images shown here were scanned in two phases. In the early years of the website, I rescanned a selection of pre-digital images, all at fairly low quality settings. During the COVID pandemic, I launched the Great Rescanning Effort, rescanning ALL of my pre-digital images from various media (prints, slides, negatives, etc) at higher resolution and quality settings. Mutilple versions of images -- some from the initial scannning phase, some from prints, some from slides/negatives -- were posted so there are frequently duplicate images on the same page. At some point, I hope to have time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates but that'll have to wait until all of the pre-digital images are finally posted. Trips this year: North Carolina (Dad), Florida (Mom), using a time share in Arkansas to visit Civil War sites in Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. The Civil War became my excuse to see places I'd never been to in my life and it was a great motivator for 20 years or so.
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