Year: 2008
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Farewell Mimi
Cuban born American chief-of-the-great-clan Emilio Louis Fanjul (1924-2008) returned to the boundless deep yesterday afternoon at 3:15pm. Fine son, husband of endless love, father of many daughters, he made the good exit in the heart of his family at Haddonfield, New Jersey after the long dance with Alzheimer’s. In yellowed photographs he smiles forever. He…
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After these messages …
… we’ll be right back. Sorry to keep you two up in the air. We’re not gone, just interrupted by events in the non-virtual world. In the odd minute free I’m compiling more about our Captain Gibson, looking at a set of coworker’s ancestors all in Gray, and beginning to get a handle on the…
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Horatio Gibson of the Flying Artillery (1)
James F. Gibson, of Mathew Brady’s Washington studio, took a lot of photographs as he traveled with the Federal Army on the Virginia Peninsula in early summer 1862. Among these are a number with particular interest in artillery and artillerymen. Well represented among them are Horatio Gates Gibson and his command, the combined Companies C…
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Vintage taste sensation
Canned condensed milk under the Eagle brand was first offered in 1856 by Gail Borden as answer to lack of refrigeration or other effective means to preserve whole milk. It was sold in large quantities during the Civil War, which made Borden a famous name [borden history]. As early as 1861 the US Army was…
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Side trip to Fox’s Gap
There was still plenty of daylight left as I was returning from Sharpsburg last weekend, so I took a rare detour from Alt-40 over to Fox’s Gap. The glorious charge of the 23rd and 12th Ohio Volunteers …(1864, Library of Congress) There are a pair of interpretive signs, two monuments, and a regimental tribute at…
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Mud of our fathers
Or: another great day on the battlefield. I was glad to be part of a small group of SHAF volunteers and Park Natural Resources guys planting tree seedlings along Antietam Creek yesterday. It was in a part of the Park I’d never visited before: a strip of low land along the west side of the…
