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A Sentimental Journey - May 20, 1990
Article in the Lifestyle section of the Syracuse Herald American about O. Winston Link and his passion for trains and his project to photograph steam locomotives. The article was published prior to Link's visit to Utica, New York to attend a dinner of the National Railway Historical Society. O. Winston Link talks with Amy Kanter about photographing the final days of Norfolk & Western's steam engines. The article contains a photograph of Mr. Link ...
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A Sentimental Journey - May 20, 1990
Article in the Lifestyle section of the Syracuse Herald American about O. Winston Link and his passion for trains and his project to photograph steam locomotives. The article was published prior to Link's visit to Utica, New York to attend a dinner of the National Railway Historical Society. O. Winston Link talks with Amy Kanter about photographing the final days of Norfolk & Western's steam engines. The article contains a photograph of Mr. Link ...
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James Kemp - June 24, 1894
Fort Steadman is also spelled Stedman. This newspaper clipping was written by James Campbell Kemp, who lived in Petersburg and witnessed (from a distance) the fall of Fort Steadman on March 25, 1865. Kemp was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and came to America in 1852. He was a bookkeeper for a wholesale grocer, later becoming a bookkeeper-cashier for a tobacco manufacturer. From 1888 until 1892, he was the clerk for the mayor of Petersburg. The ar...
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Using the Wounded as an Excuse - 1895
A letter written by then Captain James H. Meacham of the 41st Virginia Infantry relates two stories, one Southern and one Northern, that indicate that a wound can offer an excuse to go to the rear. Image one. Captain Meacham tells the reader that a Southern soldier in his company received a wound in his foot and begged to be taken to the rear. On reaching the man, Meacham found it a minor wound and decided the soldier would not be taken to the...
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