For Immediate Release – May 4, 2009 Shepherdstown, Morgantown, West Virginia For more information, contact: Edward E. Dunleavy President, Shepherdstown...
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128thpa@...
pa128th
May 6, 2009 11:38 pm
The Historical Society of Montgomery County is having a Memorial Day service at Montgomery Cemetery at 1 Hartranft Ave. in Norristown, Pa at 11:00 AM on...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
May 7, 2009 1:27 am
Hi Paula, I've been looking at John M. Gould's papers lately, and he studied the 128 PA a lot. I'll be happy to share with you as I get copies of stuff. ...
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128thpa@...
pa128th
May 8, 2009 2:51 am
Thanks Tom, that would be great! I hope to get back to my research in the summer after school ends. This has been an extremely tough year and I have done...
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eighth_conn_inf
May 8, 2009 7:30 pm
Dave, Did you have any luck on the printing of the CC maps? From what I read on the LOC site, the maps are not restricted. Larry...
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Dave
akula77
May 8, 2009 9:53 pm
Larry, I haven't had any luck with the maps. Still looking for a solution. Dave...
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T.R.Livesey
westwood_ent...
May 9, 2009 12:20 am
Have you downloaded the mrsid browser plug-in? I can't quite remember...I don't use windows anymore. At one point I used the plug in to view sid CC files I ...
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eighth_conn_inf
May 9, 2009 12:34 am
I thought Dave wanted the CC series, each one full size. I had one map printed by a company in Florida and it cost $30-$35 IIRC. The park bookstore has a full...
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Dave Mc
akula77
May 9, 2009 1:11 am
T.R. and Larry, Yep, the first part of the answer is a usable format, and T.R. is correct, the web browser plug in does offer saving a .sid file into a .jpg or...
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Dave Mc
akula77
May 9, 2009 1:20 am
Larry, I looked at the map at the Park bookstore, and I wasn't all that impressed. A little hard to read and muddy. It may just print that way, but I passed...
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James W. Durney
james2044
May 9, 2009 1:40 am
Take a look at the HPS Campaing Antietam map. That is a .pdf and can be printed if you buy the game....
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T.R.Livesey
westwood_ent...
May 9, 2009 7:52 am
I found my copy of the viewer that I downloaded several years ago. I couldn't find it on their website. The CC maps are great, but they are too big to be used...
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eighth_conn_inf
May 9, 2009 12:27 pm
T.R. and Dave, The large printed maps do seem to muddy some details and the colors aren't as good; they are just not as clear as the screen version. Apparently...
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Stephen Recker
s_recker
May 9, 2009 1:23 pm
Larry, I have actually been working on making a fly-in over the CC maps. I'll put some tests up on my site soon. Stephen...
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eighth_conn_inf
May 9, 2009 1:28 pm
Stephen, Excellent--look forward to it. Google Earth and Zillow are good but can get fuzzy very close in. Larry...
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eighth_conn_inf
May 11, 2009 9:43 pm
Probably most of us agree that Longstreet's famous cannon crew fired from near the Hagerstown Pike. But has it been settled that he and his staff did crew a...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
May 12, 2009 1:25 am
Dear Larry, I skimmed through the account and will read it more closely at another time. However, if I might comment... 1. Confederate Veteran had a bad habit...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
May 12, 2009 1:33 am
Larry, Wm. Owen's In Camp & Battle with the Washington Artillery says it happened, see the Sharpsburg chapter. Owen is usually regarded as reliable....
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richard@...
richcro1862
May 12, 2009 3:37 am
For what it's worth, I used Owen extensively in researching "No Greater Courage" because the historians at the F'Berg park recommended it so highly. ... From:...
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richard@...
richcro1862
May 12, 2009 3:40 am
And also -- Ted Alexander read my manuscript (this has been years ago) for "To Make Men Free" and made no changes to the Longstreet Battery section. ... From:...
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eighth_conn_inf
May 12, 2009 11:43 am
All--thanks for the input. I wonder if the post war Lost Cause anti-Longstreet bias had something to do with the report along with the usual poor memory of the...
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eighth_conn_inf
May 19, 2009 1:23 pm
Found a reply in a CV 1894 magagine re Longstreet's battery: "THE CRISIS AT SHARPSBURG . A correspondent from Salisbury, N. C., gives some interesting...
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T.R.Livesey
westwood_ent...
May 23, 2009 7:00 pm
Larry, Yes, I have the 1904 edition. The printed images are very clean and crisp. If all you've ever seen is the reprints of the official records atlas, the...
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eighth_conn_inf
May 24, 2009 5:52 pm
TR, I looked at some of your flybys and they are interesting; thanks for sharing them. I will be instructive to see what Stephen comes up with for Virtual...
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T.R.Livesey
westwood_ent...
May 24, 2009 7:08 pm
Larry, I have never had access to a 1908 version to compare. My guess is that the differences between the 2 are minor. A hint of possible changes can be...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
May 24, 2009 10:13 pm
Somewhere in the papers from Carman I found a listing of the changes. Will see if I can find it for you. We have 8 x10 color negatives of the 1908 maps....
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T.R.Livesey
westwood_ent...
May 25, 2009 1:06 am
Tom, I'd be interested in the list of changes. T.R. Livesey tlivesey@......
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eighth_conn_inf
May 25, 2009 2:10 am
Tom, I also am interested in the changes as well as a set of the 1908 maps. The best for them would be full size on sturdy, laminated paper, obviously clearly...
OK, but it won't be anytime soon. I am rushing to finish some other stuff and go out of town for a week. Thomas G. Clemens D.A. Professor of History ...
