BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Boonsboro -- Devil's Backbone Park

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1. DEVILS_160811_021.JPG: Council of War Should We Attack? Gettysburg Campaign Gen. George G. Meade gathered his generals near here at his "Antietam Bridge" headquarters on the evening of July 12, 1863, to decide whether to assault the Confederate defenses near Williamsport protecting Gen. Robert E. Lee's escape routes to the Potomac River. President Abraham Lincoln applied pressure: "If General Meade can complete his work, so gloriously prosecuted thus far, by the literal or substantial destruction of Lee's army, the rebellion will be over." Meade himself wrote his wife that he believed "we shall have another battle before Lee can cross the river. For my part, as I have to follow and fight him, I would rather do it at once and in Maryland than to follow into Virginia." Concerned about a rash attack, however, General-in-Chief Henry W. Halleck cautioned Meade from Washington on July 10 to "postpone a general battle till you can concentrate all your forces and get up your reserves and reenforcements. ... Beware of partial combats." When Meade solicited his lieutenants' advice two days later, five of his six corps commanders "unqualifiedly opposed" assaulting Lee's entrenched position. A displeased Halleck admonished Meade: "It is proverbial that councils of war never fight. Act upon your own judgment and make your generals execute your orders." Meade decided to attack on July 14, but it was too late, Lee had escaped across the river the previous night. "We had them in our grasp. We had only to stretch forth our hands and they were ours. And nothing I could say or do could make the Army move." -- Abraham Lincoln
2. DEVILS_160811_027.JPG: "We had them in our grasp. We had only to stretch forth our hands and they were ours. And nothing I could say or do could make the Army move." -- Abraham Lincoln
3. DEVILS_160811_033.JPG: Gen. George G. Meade Gen. Henry W. Halleck
4. DEVILS_160811_039.JPG: Devil's Backbone Dam Rehabilitation
5. DEVILS_160811_046.JPG: Condition of the dam front face prior to restoration. A 2001 inspection revealed several large areas of missing stone.
6. DEVILS_160811_049.JPG: Exposed rear face of the dam during rehabilitation prior to placement of structurally reinforced concrete.
7. DEVILS_160811_053.JPG: Steel reinforcement behind the dam prior to concrete placement
8. DEVILS_160811_056.JPG: Portion of rehabilitation dam with reset stone and new reinforced concrete section.
9. DEVILS_160811_091.JPG: Booth's Mill Bridge Built in 1833 by Charles Wilson for $2,700, this three-archer over Antietam Creek has spans of 45', 43' and 45'. It replaced a wooden bridge near the site of a powder mill. Also known as the Delamere Bridge, it is near the pillared mansion "Delamere" which the Reverend Bartholomew Booth operated as a boys' school as early as 1776. The British-born clergyman taught sons of such notables as Benedict Arnold; Robert Morris, the financier of the Revolution; Gen. Richard Henry Lee; and Samuel Washington of Virginia.
10. DEVILS_160811_100.JPG: Antietam Creek Watershed
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Description of Subject Matter: Opened to the public on June 26, 1966, Devil's Backbone is the second oldest of Washington County's parks. This nine acre park includes a footbridge across the Antietam Creek, which divides the park, providing access to the "island" section of the park as well as to a nature trail which ascends to the summit of the ridge from which the park takes its name. The park also offers fishing and an access for canoes to the Antietam Creek.
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2016 photos: Seven relatively short trips this year: two Civil War Trust conference (Gettysburg, PA and West Point, NY, with a side-trip to New York City), my 11th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Utah, Nevada, and California), a quick trip to Michigan for Uncle Wayne's funeral, two additional trips to New York City, and a Civil Rights site trip to Alabama during the November elections. Being in places where people died to preserve the rights of minority voters made the Trumputin election even more depressing. Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: just over 610,000.
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