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Description of Pictures: Divided Voices: Maryland in the Civil War
Through 2016
The Maryland Historical Society’s (MdHS) Museum opened Maryland’s largest and most comprehensive Civil War exhibit in April 2011. The impact of the war on the people of Maryland is be told in personal terms in Divided Voices: Maryland in the Civil War. The largest Civil War exhibit in the museum’s 167-year history occupies over 5,000 square feet and tell the story of a tragedy in three acts: the romantic war, the real war and the long reunion.
Featuring a “Time Tunnel” with 3-D videos which leads visitors back to 1861. On Saturdays and Sundays the Maryland Historical Society Players will perform short vignettes of major events that took place in Maryland.
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MDHSDV_150830_003.JPG: Divided Voices
Maryland in the Civil War
MDHSDV_150830_005.JPG: Divided Voices
Maryland in the Civil War
MDHSDV_150830_008.JPG: 1. A Long Road to War
MDHSDV_150830_014.JPG: "I do believe that two or three dead slaveholders.... will make this law a dead letter."
"... Old Joe ran way everyone saying to join the Union Army. In June of 1865, Old Joe returned to Ellie dressed in a uniform."
MDHSDV_150830_017.JPG: Slavery in Maryland
MDHSDV_150830_023.JPG: "Live North or die here."
Harriet Tubman
MDHSDV_150830_026.JPG: Fugitive Slave Broadside Posted by Tench Tilghman Offering a Reward for the Return of Philip Adams
MDHSDV_150830_031.JPG: Mary Hazard Travel Pass
MDHSDV_150830_035.JPG: "The Presentation of a Gold Snuff Box to the Rev. R.T. Breckenridge. In Bethel Church, y Rev. Darius Stokes in behalf of the colored people of Baltimore as a gift of gratitude. Dez. 18th AD 1845."
MDHSDV_150830_050.JPG: Martyr or Fanatic
MDHSDV_150830_055.JPG: Piece of the Gallows from Which John Brown was Hanged
MDHSDV_150830_058.JPG: Harper's Ferry
Augustus C. Weidenbach, 1863
MDHSDV_150830_062.JPG: Colonel Edward Shriver
MDHSDV_150830_065.JPG: Pikes Used by John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry, Serial No. 54 and 435:
John Brown designed and commissioned these pikes in 1857, from blacksmith Charles Blair of Connecticut. Inexpensive at $1 each, and modeled after a Bowie knife, Brown purchased 954 pikes to arm the group of slave insurgents he would lead in his raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia in 1859. After the failed raid, the pikes were confiscated from the scene and became highly coveted souvenirs.
MDHSDV_150830_070.JPG: Sharps Carbine Captured at Harper's Ferry:
During the raid of Harper's Ferry, now known as John Brown's Raid, Captain George W. Talbott, Adjutant of the 5th Regiment, Maryland Volunteers, seized this carbine from insurgent J.G. Anderson. Talbott later presented the carbine to Colonel Augustus P. Shutt of the 5th Regiment, a Special Agent of the B&O Railroad.
MDHSDV_150830_073.JPG: The Most Important Event of the Age
MDHSDV_150830_078.JPG: Adalbert Volck
MDHSDV_150830_082.JPG: "... it is idle hope for the safety of the Union upon Lincoln's election."
MDHSDV_150830_087.JPG: "Everyone declared if I did [vote for Lincoln] they would not patronize me anymore and I would have to leave by my trade."
MDHSDV_150830_093.JPG: Steel Cane with Concealed Single-Shot Firearm
MDHSDV_150830_097.JPG: Haversack Carried by Sidney L. Colley During the Pratt Street Riot
MDHSDV_150830_100.JPG: This is the first ??? blood of the man ??? taken at the moment of death from a wound in the head of the clerk who was shot at the corner of Pratt and South Streets Baltimore ... by the 6th Massachusetts Regiment Apr 19th 1861 as witnessed by J. Falloone ???
MDHSDV_150830_104.JPG: Baltimore City Police Pistol
Used during the Pratt St. Riot, April 19th, 1861
MDHSDV_150830_110.JPG: Silk Ribbon from Abraham Lincoln's Presidential Campaign of 1860
MDHSDV_150830_114.JPG: Thirty-four Star Flag Flown on West Lafayette Avenue, Baltimore:
This flag was made by the donor's grandmother, Alice McClellan, and her mother, Eleanor Miranda Dixon White, and hung on the front of the family store and residence on West Lafayette Street in Baltimore. The family flew the flag to celebrate Lincoln's election of 1860, and again in 1865, when Lincoln's funeral train passed through the city.
Photo of Flag Hanging on Store Front on West Lafayette Street
MDHSDV_150830_125.JPG: "The scene while the troops were changing cars was indescribably fearful. Taunts... were hurled from the panting crowd, who... presenting knives and revolvers... cursed up into the faces of the soldiers."
MDHSDV_150830_129.JPG: "Martyrs" of the Pratt Street Riot:
The Pratt Street Riot became national news in an instant. The victims of the unprovoked attack were cast as martyrs. Photographers and lithographers capitalized on the public desire to see the faces of those who fell.
MDHSDV_150830_140.JPG: "Nick Biddle," of Pottsville, PA, the first man wounded in the Great American Rebellion, Baltimore, April 18, 1861.
During a riot on April 18, Nicholas Biddle, a servant of Captain James Wren of the Washington Artillerists from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, was struck in the face by a paving stone. He bore a scar the rest of his life and the incident is remembered as the "first blood" of the war. His image is the first carte de visite of an African American mass-produced for sale.
MDHSDV_150830_144.JPG: William R. Clark:
William R. Clark, a sailor, was one of 12 citizens killed in Baltimore during the riot. A musket ball instantly killed him while he stood on the corner of Pratt and South Streets. Days before his death, Clark enlisted in the Confederate Regular Army. Many now consider him the first Confederate soldier killed in the war.
MDHSDV_150830_146.JPG: Luther C. Ladd, Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Company D:
The public demand to see images of the war's first casualties was a marketing boon. Among the four soldiers of the Sixth Massachusetts killed on April 19th was seventeen-year-old Private Luther Crawford Ladd.
MDHSDV_150830_155.JPG: Bloodshed in the Streets of Baltimore:
On April 19, 1861, the Civil War's first blood was spilled on Baltimore's Pratt Street. Union soldiers, heading to protect Washington DC, traded rail cars for horse-drawn trolleys to transfer between President Street and Camden Street Stations. Secessionist mobs armed with bricks and guns blocked the tracks with debris. The 6th Massachusetts, forced to march, fired at the firing crowd. Four soldiers and twelve civilians died. Both sides expected more trouble.
MDHSDV_150830_162.JPG: George P. Kane
MDHSDV_150830_164.JPG: Clara Barton
MDHSDV_150830_166.JPG: "Every substantial hope... depends upon the calm and earnest wisdom of the border states."
MDHSDV_150830_169.JPG: "Maryland! My Maryland!" A Patriotic Song:
James Ryder Randall (1839-1908), a poet and Confederate sympathizer, was living in Louisiana during the Pratt Street Riot and subsequent occupation of Baltimore. Deeply distressed and outraged, Randall penned his famous "Maryland, My Maryland" in sympathy with his native city. The words of his peom would later become the lyrics for the Maryland state song.
MDHSDV_150830_173.JPG: The National Prayer for "Humiliation Day," Baltimore, September 26, 1861:
Baltimore was subjected to martial law and occupation by Northern troops in 1861. Citizens of the city, both pro-Union and pro-Confederacy, used broadsides as a means to rally support for their causes. This satirical broadside calls out, by name, the public figures, organizations, and situations that frustrated and worried many Southern sympathizers during the early days of the War.
MDHSDV_150830_185.JPG: "I have taken possession of Baltimore... If I am attacked tonight, please open upon [Battle] Monument Square with your mortars."
MDHSDV_150830_193.JPG: John Merryman
MDHSDV_150830_195.JPG: Roger B. Taney
MDHSDV_150830_198.JPG: "Searching for Arms"
In this cartoon, Adalbert Volck depicts a nighttime "raid" by Federal troops on a Baltimore residence. Here, the women of the house huddle together in their shifts while an older gentleman is menaced by two Union soldiers. Two Confederate flags, the famous "stars and bars" are found, revealing the family's true loyalties. These "unlawful" searches, seizures, and imprisonments outraged citizens like Volck.
MDHSDV_150830_202.JPG: John Merryman
MDHSDV_150830_206.JPG: Writing Box, Brass Name Plaque, Pens, Bottles and Wax Seals Belonging to Mayor George William Brown
MDHSDV_150830_213.JPG: Baltimore Under Arrest
MDHSDV_150830_223.JPG: George William Brown
MDHSDV_150830_226.JPG: Thomas Holliday Hicks
MDHSDV_150830_228.JPG: Benjamin Franklin Butler
MDHSDV_150830_232.JPG: "Sister and I do not make an appearance when Yanks are in the house, entertaining no sympathy for them."
MDHSDV_150830_236.JPG: 2. Divided Loyalties
MDHSDV_150830_239.JPG: Anna Ella Carroll
MDHSDV_150830_243.JPG: Anna Ella Carroll
MDHSDV_150830_247.JPG: Women on Both Sides: Early War
MDHSDV_150830_250.JPG: "How the Daughters of Maryland Received the Sons of the North as they Marched Against the Confederate Invaders -- Scene in March."
This woodcut, published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated History of the Civil War, depicts Baltimore's ladies providing food and drink to Federal troops prior to the Antietam campaign in the fall of 1862. This image is a sharp contrast to those of the defiant Baltimore rebel ladies who were known for taunting Union troops.
MDHSDV_150830_261.JPG: Child's Red Dress and Matching Cape, probably worn by a boy
MDHSDV_150830_265.JPG: Olive Green Day Dress with Floral Embroidery
MDHSDV_150830_271.JPG: Child's Dress, displayed inside out
MDHSDV_150830_277.JPG: Felix Agnus
Zouaves Fashion -- From Battlefield to Homefront
MDHSDV_150830_282.JPG: Zouaves Fashion -- From Battlefield to Homefront
MDHSDV_150830_283.JPG: Hoops
Women used their hoops to conceal medicines and other supplies they smuggled over enemy lines. Here, the pockets are displayed over the hoops to help visitors see them. Typically, women wore pockets under the hoops and layers of petticoats, making them an ideal vehicle for smuggling.
MDHSDV_150830_286.JPG: 3. Spontaneous Combustion
MDHSDV_150830_290.JPG: "B&O President John Garrett was the right arm of the federal government aiding in preventing the Confederates from seizing Washington."
MDHSDV_150830_296.JPG: The Business of War
MDHSDV_150830_301.JPG: John Work Garrett
MDHSDV_150830_304.JPG: Ross Winans
MDHSDV_150830_307.JPG: Enoch Pratt
MDHSDV_150830_311.JPG: Robert Poole
MDHSDV_150830_314.JPG: $100 Bond Certificate No. 219, Issued by the Confederate States of America, State of Louisiana, 1862
In order to raise capital the Confederate government as well as individual states in the South issued monetary bonds. Investors, especially abroad, bought into the plan expecting to be able to see a return after the War. Unfortunately, for these individuals when the Confederacy dissolved in 1865, the United States refused to assume the debts. Thousands of investors were left with nothing but some colored paper.
MDHSDV_150830_331.JPG: United States Currency Issued During the Civil War:
The United States federal government didn't begin issuing paper currency until the Civil War. The type of U.S. dollar bills we use today are direct descendants from the $10 note seen here.
MDHSDV_150830_334.JPG: Bank-issued currency notes, from Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Maryland:
Until the mid 1860s, private-issue currency was common place. Operating under a charter from the state, private banks would issue their own paper notes in a range of denominations. With thousands of banks all over the country the system was confusing and not very reliable. Functioning more like checks these bills were only as good as long as the institution was still in business. During the Civil War the private-issue notes were phased out in favor of the new more stable federal currency.
MDHSDV_150830_342.JPG: United States Fractional Currency
Due to the scarcity of metal, and the hording of gold and silver during the Civil War, the United States Federal Government issued fractional currency notes as a replacement for coins. They ranged from 3, 5, 10, 15, 25, and 50 cent denominations and continued to be in use until the 1870s.
MDHSDV_150830_359.JPG: Confederate "Bowie Knife" and Scabbard
MDHSDV_150830_363.JPG: General I. Ridgeway Trimble
Samuel Bell Waugh, date unknown
MDHSDV_150830_369.JPG: Isaac Ridgeway Trimble
MDHSDV_150830_372.JPG: Veteran's Badge of the Issac R. Trimble Camp 1025, UCV
Prior to 1889, Confederate veterans had no national organization. Trimble was venerated as a Confederate hero log after the war. This badge was owned by a member of the Isaac Trimble Camp which was named after him.
Red Silk Sash Worn by Confederate General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble
MDHSDV_150830_375.JPG: Cavaliers or Guerillas?
MDHSDV_150830_380.JPG: "Say when, my dear Sir... will you permit me to make you an offer of my hand and my heart?"
MDHSDV_150830_383.JPG: John Singleton Mosby
MDHSDV_150830_386.JPG: Harry Gilmor
MDHSDV_150830_389.JPG: Barbara Fritchie
MDHSDV_150830_391.JPG: Marching Through Maryland
MDHSDV_150830_397.JPG: Edward R. Rich
MDHSDV_150830_405.JPG: "The present seems to be the most propitious time since the commencement of the war for the Confederate Army to enter Maryland."
MDHSDV_150830_409.JPG: Maryland -- A Highway for Invasions
MDHSDV_150830_411.JPG: 1862
MDHSDV_150830_417.JPG: 1863
MDHSDV_150830_419.JPG: 1864
MDHSDV_150830_428.JPG: Marching Through Maryland
MDHSDV_150830_434.JPG: Turner Ashby, Jr.
MDHSDV_150830_436.JPG: Turner Ashby, Jr.
MDHSDV_150830_439.JPG: Published two years after the end of the war, the proceeds from the sale of this engraving were used to construct a monument in Baltimore to honor the Maryland Line, Confederate States of America (CSA).
MDHSDV_150830_443.JPG: Brigadier General Turner Ashby, Post-Mortem:
Ashby's dramatically heroic passing exalted him to a cult icon of the Confederacy. Combined with the Victorian obsession with death and newly available photographic technology, creating one last image of the hero lying in-state may have been impossible to resist.
MDHSDV_150830_445.JPG: 32 Star US Flag Converted to 34 Star Flag
This flag was likely printed in 1858, after Minnesota became the 32nd state admitted to the union. Only 9 months later, Oregon joined the union, making the 32-star flag obsolete. In January of 1861, Kansas became the 34th state to join the union. With the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861, the demand for the 34 star flag grew exponentially and altering a 32-star flag became a way to meet the rising demand.
Manufacturers would cut stars from other flags and hand-stitch them onto an already-printed 32 star flag where they could to create the 34-star flag, as seen here.
MDHSDV_150830_450.JPG: Vulcanized Raincoat Worn by Turner Ashby
MDHSDV_150830_454.JPG: Gloves worn by John R. Kenly during the Civil War
MDHSDV_150830_457.JPG: Sharp Shooters Badge
worn by Henry A. Wise Co. B. 2nd Md. Inftre CSA
MDHSDV_150830_463.JPG: The Minie Ball: A Most Important Artifact
MDHSDV_150830_471.JPG: Death and Destruction
MDHSDV_150830_477.JPG: Photographic Incidents of the War, No. 565 -- View of Ditch on Right Wing, which had been used as a rifle pit by the Confederates at the Battle of Antietam.
MDHSDV_150830_480.JPG: "These bullets have a peculiar sound... Some come with a sharp 'click', like striking a cabbage leaf with a whip lash, others come with a screech, very much such as you would get by treading on a cat's tail."
MDHSDV_150830_488.JPG: Union Sawtooth Bayonet
MDHSDV_150830_491.JPG: Hand-carved Wooden Rosaries, Charms, Bracelets, and Rings Carved by Confederate Prisoners at Point Lookout Prison
MDHSDV_150830_503.JPG: Prisoners
MDHSDV_150830_505.JPG: Point Lookout, Maryland -- View of Hammond General Hospital and US General Depot for Prisoners of War:
Vengeful guards, crowded quarters, poor sanitation, and disease created horrible conditions at Union and Confederate prisons. Maryland had its own example at the mouth of the Potomac. Point Lookout began as a general hospital but added a prison stockade, gatherings prisoners from Gettysburg and later battles. In addition to overcrowding and ration shortages, newly-recruited black regiments guarded Confederates. About 20,000 prisoners were crammed into a pen designed for 10,000. Disease and neglect claimed 3,000 lives over 22 months.
MDHSDV_150830_509.JPG: Private John O. Rose, 8th Kentucky Infantry:
A woodcut rendering of this photograph appeared in the June 18, 1864, issue of Harper's Weekly along with an expose about "rebel cruelty."
MDHSDV_150830_513.JPG: "It was such an unhealthy camp... that the prisoners considered that they had a better chance for their lives fighting in the army."
MDHSDV_150830_515.JPG: Silk Hand-painted Flag of the Fourth Regiment United States Colored Troops (USCT)
MDHSDV_150830_521.JPG: "He Will Fight"
MDHSDV_150830_524.JPG: US Colored Troops Descriptive Book
This book is the roster of Company B of the 30th Regiment of the United States Colored Troops (USCT), which was comprised primarily of Marylanders. The book records a range of demographic data, including status as free or slave, as well as physical characteristics of the men. The fate of each member of the regiment is also detailed -- discharged, deserted or cause of death.
MDHSDV_150830_542.JPG: Franklin Buchanan
MDHSDV_150830_545.JPG: Franklin Buchanan
MDHSDV_150830_549.JPG: Approximately 9,586 African Americans served in the Union navy during the Civil War. Many were seamen before the conflict and put their existing skills to work for the cause.
MDHSDV_150830_550.JPG: One of the most important naval battles of the Civil War ended in a draw. On March 8th and 9th, 1862, the ironclads CSS Merrimac (Virginia) and USS Monitor clashed at Hampton Roads, Virginia. Forever after the battle, the success of the Monitor's revolutionary design with its two large caliber guns mounted on a central rotating turret permanently changed ship construction.
MDHSDV_150830_554.JPG: Confederate Naval Officer's Frock Coat Worn by Franklin Buchanan
MDHSDV_150830_557.JPG: Ivory Field Glasses and Case Used by Bradley T. Johnson During the Civil War
MDHSDV_150830_563.JPG: James McHenry Howard
MDHSDV_150830_566.JPG: Bradley Tyler Johnson
MDHSDV_150830_572.JPG: Colored Troops in Combat
MDHSDV_150830_578.JPG: "The first thing in the morning is drill. Then drill, then drill again. Then drill, drill, a little more drill. Then drill, and lastly, drill."
MDHSDV_150830_582.JPG: A Soldiers's Life
MDHSDV_150830_586.JPG: Linen Haversack and Leather Haversack
MDHSDV_150830_589.JPG: Richard Snowden Andrews
MDHSDV_150830_595.JPG: Confederate Officer's Roundabout Worn by Major Richard Snowden Andrews
MDHSDV_150830_599.JPG: "To Care for Him Who Shall Have Borne the Battle"
MDHSDV_150830_604.JPG: "The real war will never get in the books... the marrow of the tragedy concentrated in those area hospitals."
MDHSDV_150830_607.JPG: Patented Folding Stretcher
Like many Civil War inventions, this patent stretcher made by US National Wagon Company was well intended, but probably ill-designed for hard use on the battlefield. A vulcanized sheet is rolled up at the bottom of the stretcher and could be pulled up to shield the wounded from the rain.
MDHSDV_150830_611.JPG: Wounded Men
MDHSDV_150830_624.JPG: Thomas Andrew McParlin
MDHSDV_150830_630.JPG: John Forney Zacharias
MDHSDV_150830_633.JPG: Alexander T. Augusta
MDHSDV_150830_636.JPG: Maria C. Hall
MDHSDV_150830_638.JPG: Woman's Relief: Two Stories
MDHSDV_150830_641.JPG: Mourning Dress
c 1863
MDHSDV_150830_644.JPG: Homefront: Late War
MDHSDV_150830_652.JPG: A Day of Universal Horror
MDHSDV_150830_655.JPG: Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt
MDHSDV_150830_658.JPG: John Wilkes Booth
MDHSDV_150830_661.JPG: The Lincoln Assassination
MDHSDV_150830_669.JPG: Carved Figure of Abraham Lincoln:
Little is known about this folk art figure of Lincoln, but it was carved in Somerset County, Maryland just after the war. It is a testament to the lasting memory of the man still revered as one of America's greatest presidents. The presence of Lincoln's beard rules out the possibility that it was made during his first presidential campaign. Lincoln didn't grow his famous facial hair until after his election in 1860.
MDHSDV_150830_672.JPG: Wallpaper from President Lincoln's Box at Ford Theater, Washington DC:
This wallpaper, removed from the private box at Ford's Theater in which President Lincoln was sitting when he was shot, is part of the Mary Ann Booth Papers held by the Maryland Historical Society Library. Despite dying a murder, Wilkes remained beloved in the minds of his mother Mary Ann, and his sister, Asia. This scrap of wallpaper attests to their lingering obsession with a family member who became one of American history's most despised men.
MDHSDV_150830_676.JPG: "They will take the oath of allegiance to-morrow, and be sent in whatever direction they may prefer."
MDHSDV_150830_679.JPG: Robert E. Lee's General Order No. 9
Upon Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender to the Union Army at Appomattox Court House he made his farewell address to his men. Lee's general order to cease fighting and return home is poignant in its simplicity and gratitude for the efforts of those who fought and sacrificed for the cause of the South under his leadership. Transcribed by a clerk at the Headquarters of the Army of Northern Virginia, twelve original copies were made to be sent to Lee's regiments, with an additional copy given to the clerk. Immediately the Order began being duplicated with versions disseminating across the country. Some of these, such as the Order No. 9 held by the Maryland Historical Society, are signed by Lee himself.
MDHSDV_150830_685.JPG: Robert E. Lee
MDHSDV_150830_698.JPG: "... it is very sad to see these poor fellows come back to begin life all over again, with the great blight of their failure weighing upon them."
MDHSDV_150830_701.JPG: Old Soldiers
MDHSDV_150830_704.JPG: Wade Hampton (left) and Bradley Tyler Johnson (right) on the porch of the Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers Home in Pikesville, Maryland, undated:
Bradley Tyler Johnson, veteran of the 1st Maryland Infantry, CSA served as president of the Association of the Maryland Line. He contributed heavily to the creation of the Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers Home. Here he sits on the Home's porch with South Carolina Cavalry General Wade Hampton.
MDHSDV_150830_711.JPG: Union Club of Baltimore
Organized May 6, 1863
Presidents
Jerome N. Bonaparte, John P. Kennedy, Thomas H. Morris, William J. Albert, Washington Booth
Dissolved April 30, 1872:
This Renaissance Revival chest-on-stand was made to contain the thirty-five star flag which flew from the Union Club's headquarters, the Howard Mansion at Charles and Franklin Streets. Qualification for membership required, "An unqualified loyalty to the Government of the United States and devotion to the Union." The Club's primary object was "to discourage all disloyalty to that Government and all attempts to subvert the Union."
MDHSDV_150830_717.JPG: "It is well that Baltimore should be selected as the city... in which the enfranchised people of the nation should celebrate the great jubilee of freedom."
MDHSDV_150830_721.JPG: Frederick Douglass
MDHSDV_150830_724.JPG: William Demby
MDHSDV_150830_729.JPG: The Fifteenth Amendment
MDHSDV_150830_735.JPG: Vacant Chair
MDHSDV_150830_740.JPG: Replica of a "Vacant Chair"
This replica of a "Vacant Chair" was recreated with the help of the image of "The Vacant Chair Ceremony" seen on your right.
MDHSDV_150830_743.JPG: 4. The Long Reunion
MDHSDV_150830_750.JPG: Bull's Eye Canteen with Cork Stopper and American Flag Ribbon
MDHSDV_150830_759.JPG: Camp Chair Used by Robert E. Lee
Brass plaque on chair reads,
"Camp Chair of Robert E. Lee
used at the field headquarters
Second Battle of Manassas
War Between the States
Presented by Joshua Thomas Baltimore MD"
If not for a brass plaque on the worn and repaired seat of this simple folding chair, it might seem unremarkable. Joshua Thomas, the chair's donor, severed as one of Lee's clerks and later gave it to the Maryland Historical Society.
MDHSDV_150830_768.JPG: Antietam National Cemetery Memorial Shadowbox
MDHSDV_150830_777.JPG: Cane carved "Cut from the Battle Field of Antietam, fought September 17th 1862, carved by SF Hebb Oct. 14th 1883 / Genl Joe Hooker Genl Stonewall Jackson"
MDHSDV_150830_789.JPG: "It the [Matthew Brady] has not brought bodies and laid them in our dooryards and along the streets, he has done something very like it."
MDHSDV_150830_797.JPG: Bendann Photography
MDHSDV_150830_799.JPG: Photography and Literacy in the Civil War Era
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2015_MD_MDHS_Toyland: MD -- Baltimore -- Maryland Historical Society -- Exhibit: Nipper's Toyland: 200 Years of Children's Playthings (17 photos from 2015)
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2015_MD_MDHS_Glushakow: MD -- Baltimore -- Maryland Historical Society -- Exhibit: Art of Jacob Glushakow (49 photos from 2015)
2015_MD_MDHS_Full_Glory: MD -- Baltimore -- Maryland Historical Society -- Exhibit: In Full Glory Reflected: Maryland during the War of 1812 (188 photos from 2015)
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2015 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
I retired from the US Census Bureau in god-forsaken Suitland, Maryland on my 58th birthday in May. Yee ha!
Trips this year:
a quick trip to Florida.
two Civil War Trust conferences (Raleigh, NC and Richmond, VA), and
my 10th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Los Angeles).
Ego Strokes: Carolyn Cerbin used a Kevin Costner photo in her USA Today article. Miss DC pictures were used a few times in the Washington Post.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 550,000.
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