Down By the Water

Are you happy your Ravens are in the Super Bowl?

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:28:00 -0500

Where the heck have you been all this time?

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:14:00 -0500

um…

busy with work.

Photo

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:42:39 -0500

hauntedbythefsa: Interior of railroad station, Hagerstown,...

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:20:17 -0400

hauntedbythefsa:

Interior of railroad station, Hagerstown, Maryland

Digital ID: (digital file from intermediary roll film) fsa 8a09137 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a09137
Reproduction Number: LC-USF33-002649-M5 (b&w film nitrate neg., 70mm size) LC-USF3301-002649-M5 (b&w film dup. neg., 4x5 size) LC-USF331-002649-M5 (b&w film copy neg. from file print)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

newjerzee: ((I KNOW IT’S ALMOST THE END OF THE DAY BUT… IT’S TMI TUESDAY YO. Come at me bros. 8)...

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:11:29 -0400

newjerzee:

((I KNOW IT’S ALMOST THE END OF THE DAY BUT… IT’S TMI TUESDAY YO.

Come at me bros. 8) ))

Hey, make sure you show Jersey a nice time on that boat of yours. He doesn't get out much. - NV

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 23:29:40 -0400

Don’t worry, Nevada. :) We shall have the greatest time.

Confederate infantry re-enactors participate in the Battle of...

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:55:44 -0400

Confederate infantry re-enactors participate in the Battle of Bloody Lane during an event to mark the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam in Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 15, 2012. The Battle of Antietam was fought on September 17, 1862 and was the bloodiest battle in American history with more than 23,000 men killed, wounded, and missing in one single day.(Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Some old drawings of Civil War Maryland. 1. Antietam, September...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:59:00 -0400

Some old drawings of Civil War Maryland.

1. Antietam, September 17, 1862.

2. Aftermath of the Baltimore Riots, where the governor orders all the bridges out of Baltimore to be burned.

3. Virginia urges secession, April 1861.

4. Maryland’s jovial relationship with Abraham Lincoln.

I never know how to act on anniversaries of things

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:26:55 -0400

Maybe it makes it look like I don’t care, even though I do.

A lot.

Maybe too much.

~~Damn this social ineptitude.~~

thecivilwarparlor: During the Battle of Antietam, Clara...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:25:05 -0400

thecivilwarparlor:

During the Battle of Antietam, Clara Barton tended the wounded so close to the fighting that a bullet went through her sleeve and killed a man she was treating.

leanunachriost: Today, 17 September 2012, we remember those who...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:24:20 -0400

leanunachriost:

Today, 17 September 2012, we remember those who died some 150 years ago on 17 September 1862 at the Battle of Antietam.

We morn those 23,000 souls who gave their lives fighting for their country. Twenty-three-thousand Americans died that fateful day these many years ago. That is more than 7 times the casualties of September 11th. More Americans died that day than in any other day in history.

Brother vs. Brother, Father vs. Son.

We talk of senseless violence when we talk about terror.

How soon we forget the senselessness of war. And civil war at that.

How soon we forget.

Today, I ask that you pray for the souls that died that day, or days later from their wounds. I ask you to offer up your suffering for the release of their souls from purgatory into the light of heaven. I ask that you pray for the end of all wars, but especially, on this day, I ask that you pray for an end to civil war throughout the world.

God our Father,
Your power brings us to birth,
Your providence guides our lives,
and by Your command we return to dust.

Lord, those who die still live in Your presence,
their lives change but do not end.
I pray in hope for my countrymen,
both from the North and the South,
and for all the dead known to You alone.

In company with Christ,
Who died and now lives,
may they rejoice in Your kingdom,
where all our tears are wiped away.
Unite us together again in one family,
to sing Your praise forever and ever.

Amen.

obitoftheday: Obit of the Day (Historical): The Battle of...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:23:47 -0400

"Confederate dead by a fence on the Hagerstown road"

Bloody Lane

"A lone grave on the Battle-field of Antietam"

"Confederate soldier who after being wounded had evidently dragged himself to a little ravine on the hillside where he died."

Untitled

obitoftheday:

Obit of the Day (Historical): The Battle of Antietam (1862)

September 17, 1862 marks the 150th anniversary of not only the deadliest day of the U.S. Civil War but also in the entire military history of the United States. By the end of that late summer day, 3,654 Federal and Confederate soldiers lay dead on the Maryland battlefield. All told there were 23,000 casualties combined for North and South.

The leaders of the opposing forces were General George McClellan (U.S.A.) with his Army of the Potomac and General Robert E. Lee (C.S.A.) bringing with him the Army of Virginia. The battle began at 5:30 a.m. on the 17th and lasted 12 hours. From the start, the advantage was McClellan’s. Not only did his forces far outnumber Lee’s, 75,000 to 55,000, but McClellan had forewarning of Lee’s strategy when a corporal and sergeant discovered a copy of the Confederate battle plans, known as Special Order 191, wrapped around three cigars. But McClellan took advantage of neither, waiting 18 hours after finding the orders to attack Lee and leaving 25,000 troops completely inactive during the battle.

For all the loss of life the battle is deemed by historians as a “draw.” However since Lee was the one who fled the battlefield President Lincoln determined it to be a strategic, if tenuous, victory. (He did however fault McClellan for his complete lack of leadership and failure to press the Confederates after the battle. Eventually McClellan would be removed from command, and the general would actually run against Lincoln for president in 1864.)

The “victory” mattered for Lincoln because it gave him an opportunity to announce the Emancipation Proclamation, the document that would free the slaves - in Confederate territory. (Lincoln would not free the slaves in the U.S. for fear of alienating the border states, Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky, who allowed slavery.) Had Lincoln issued the Proclamation after a Federal loss, it would have appeared to be a move of desperation. The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863.

Sources: www.civilwar.org, www.thehistoricalarchive.com, wikipedia.org, and my history geek brain

(All images are photographs of Antietam taken by Alexander Gardner, a Scottish photographer, who took 70 photos of the battlefield and its dead.

Top left: loc.gov - “Confederate dead by a fence on the Hagerstown road”, September 1862. Facsimile. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (145) Digital ID # cwpb-01097

Top right: npr.org - “Bloody Lane”

Center: npr.org - “A lone grave on the Battle-field of Antietam”

Bottom left: shorpy.com - “Confederate soldier who after being wounded had evidently dragged himself to a little ravine on the hillside where he died.”

Bottom right: nationalparkstraveler.com - Untitled)

bartlet4america: September 17, 1862 Battle of Antietam...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:23:12 -0400

bartlet4america:

September 17, 1862 Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg)

Today is the 150th Anniversary of the single bloodiest day of the civil war.

madloona: She meets her sisters on the plain-Sic semper! ‘tis...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:22:30 -0400

madloona:

She meets her sisters on the plain-
Sic semper! ‘tis the proud refrain
That baffles minions back amain,
Maryland!
Arise in majesty again,
Maryland! My Maryland!

- James Ryder Randall

Robert E Lee by the very talented LJ Lindhurst on the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, Sharpsburg, MD

LEAVE ME ALONE ABOUT MARYLAND.

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:52:15 -0400

newjerzee:

askmaryland:

newjerzee:

askmaryland:

I’m sorry I’m so fascinating.

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU BEING “FASCINATING.”

I could try being a little bit more boring.

It’d be hard, but I could try.

I already said this doesn’t have anything to do with you being fascinating. Stop stroking your ego, dammit. You don ‘t need to change anything, alright?

So you love me just the way I am. ;)

So I'm guessing you don't think he's attractive or anything, right?

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:49:50 -0400

Eh…I dunno if gingers are really my type.

How do you feel about everyone bugging NJ about you?

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:26:38 -0400

It amuses me. *sips a bottle of Natty Boh casually*

LEAVE ME ALONE ABOUT MARYLAND.

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:25:23 -0400

newjerzee:

askmaryland:

I’m sorry I’m so fascinating.

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU BEING “FASCINATING.”

I could try being a little bit more boring.

It’d be hard, but I could try.

You're really adorable you know.

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:21:00 -0400

Why thanks, hon! :D

It is what I aim for.

LEAVE ME ALONE ABOUT MARYLAND.

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:58:48 -0400

I’m sorry I’m so fascinating.