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  • Snapshots

    Snapshots

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    While chasing one of my boys, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel W. Owen, 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry, I came on a photograph of him in an unusual setting. It made me think about how few casual or frivolous pictures–snapshots–I’ve can remember seeing among (probably) thousands of American Civil War-era images. On reflection, this isn’t surprising. Due to the…

  • Federal artillery east of the Antietam

    Federal artillery east of the Antietam

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    Artillery Hell (James Hope, Antietam National Battlefield) A few days ago I was prompted by a TalkAntietam query to look into the strength of the Federal Artillery at Antietam on 17 September 1862. In particular, that of the long-range guns overlooking the battlefield from the heights east of Antietam Creek. Those guns were largely responsible…

  • Audenried ’61

    Audenried ’61

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    Joseph Audenried (1839-1880) was fresh from the US Military Academy at West Point as the American Civil War began in the Spring of 1861 …

  • Confederate surgeon Simon Baruch

    Confederate surgeon Simon Baruch

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    This is Assistant Surgeon Simon Baruch (‘ba-rook’) of the 3rd South Carolina Battalion. I found him by following a thread in a CW Society post, part of their recent conversation about Jewish Confederates. Among those prominent in that service it mentioned … Nahum Baruch, the father of financier Bernard Baruch, was a doctor and Colonel…

  • James Madison Cutts of Washington, DC

    James Madison Cutts of Washington, DC

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    I like to think I would have got to him eventually, but an email query from distant descendent Gene Siscoe brought Captain J.M. Cutts, Jr. (1837-1903) to my attention yesterday. The question concerned his actions on General Burnside’s staff at Antietam in 1862. Sadly, I can’t help much there, Cutts is only listed as present…

  • PHP + database + webserver

    PHP + database + webserver

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    In a previous post I talked about how an aspiring digital historian might learn some fundamental software technologies applicable to building a dynamic website. Today I’ll try to better explain how those work together to produce web pages. In the simplest kind of website, a person using a browser requests an HTML page by clicking…