Photo-historique 1

(Ft. Delaware State Park, Delaware City, DE-1995)
This photo (above) features the company assisting the Mifflin Guard in reproducing an illustration from the Rev. I Handy's "US Bonds", a story of imprisonment in Ft. Delaware (Pea Patch Island). Fort Delaware was a notorious Federal p.o.w. center during the war, and was often referred to as the "Andersonville of the North".

The "dead line" at North Anna-1994. The (above) photograph above was our feeble attempt to reproduce this most famous "dead line" photograph of "Dead at Spotsylvania", from "Miller's Photographic History of the Civil

War" (at right). Spotsylvania was the single greatest disaster for the 37th Virginia, in which their entire division was overwhelmed by the en-echelon attack of Hancock's Corps in a column of regiments. Two thirds of the roughly 280 men present for duty in the 37th that morning were either captured, wounded or killed. Their entire division (Johnson's) was captured. Yet despite initial success, the Federal attack was doomed to stall, and after gallant counterattacks engineered by General John Gordon, the action degenerated into the fight at the "bloody angle", some of the most savage and close combat of the entire war.

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