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BITTEN BY THE CIVIL WAR BUG AT THE TINKER HOMESTEAD ENCAMPMENT
BITTEN BY THE CIVIL WAR BUG AT THE TINKER HOMESTEAD ENCAMPMENT
Publication date: 24 November 2020
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BITTEN BY THE CIVIL WAR BUG AT THE TINKER HOMESTEAD ENCAMPMENT
creator:
David Kramer
subject:
History
description:
Caption: Eleventh Printing, 1970. The American Heritage series was renowned for its collection of pictorial maps by David Greenspan. Greenspan’s full-color maps combined an artist’s vision with the cartographer’s discipline. The reader sees battlefields from the perspective of aerial photographs provided by the U.S. High Altitude Photography Program, conveying — back in 1960 — battlefield topography in a way rarely available to the Civil War historian. Spottsylvania Pictorial map of the battle of The Wilderness where Rochester’s greatest soldier, General Elwell Otis was wounded. Apparently, the side bar scene description covers the area where Otis would have been. (see Celebrating the first Otis Day (June 15th) with the General’s sword at its new home: the Military Society of Rochester) The maps, along with photographs, historically accurate illustrations and epic paintings fueled my boyhood imagination. So I took the book to the 13th annual Tinker Homestead and Farm Museum’s “Civil War Days” at the Tinker Nature Park in
publisher:
Talker Of The Town
contributor:
Photographer David Kramer
date:
08/08/2016
type:
Photo
format:
jpg
source:
Civil War
relation:
https://talkerofthetown.com/2016/08/08/bitten-by-the-civil-war-bug-at-the-tinker-homestead-encampment/
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Contact David Kramer at Talker of the Town at dkramer3@mail.naz.edu