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Saturday Oct 20, 2012
Saturday Oct 20, 2012
Interview with Middlebury College Art Professor and Photographer John Huddleston, author of Killing Ground: Photographs of the Civil War and the Changing American Landscape (2003, Johns Hopkins University Press) and Healing Ground: Walking the Farms of Vermont (2012, Center for American Places). Today's Write The Book Prompt is actually a series of photographs included by my guest, John Huddleston, in his books Killing Ground and Healing Ground. Here you'll find photos that we specifically discuss in the interview, as well as a few others that you might likewise find inspirational. I hope these images speak to you and encourage your writing process. And, as ever, please tune in next week for another prompt. Music credits: 1) “Dreaming 1″ - John Fink; 2) “Filter” - Dorset Greens (a Vermont band featuring several former South Burlington High School students, now alums).
1 - 3 July 1863
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The Union Dead
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51,112 American Casualties
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
In the early afternoon of the first day, the Confederates forced the Federals to retreat from this position just north of the college.
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70,000 American Casualties
Petersburg, Virginia
Bombproof Quarters of Fort Sedgwick, a Key Position on the Eastern Union Siege Line
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15 June 1864 - 2 April 1865
Petersburg, Virginia
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27 June 1862
Gaines' Mill, Virginia
Federal dead from Gaines' Mill were photographed in 1865 after their shallow graves had been exposed.
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15, 587 Casualties
Gaines' Mill, Virginia
Center of the Battle Lines, Site of Several Unsuccessful Confederate Charges
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6 - 7 April 1862
Shiloh, Tennessee
The guns of the USS Lexington (background) shelled the Confederates throughout the evening and night of 6 April.
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23,746 Casualties
Shiloh, Tennessee
Bloody Pond. Here the wounded from both sides dragged themselves to drink and to die.
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19 May - 4 July 1863
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Bombproof Quarters on the Union Line at the Shirley House
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37,293 American Casualties
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Iraq-bound National Guardsmen at the Shirley House, July 1990
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Cows in a Stall.
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Manure Pond.
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Pods/Grass/Snow.
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Ice Columns Sculpture.
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Car Tracks on the Snow.
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