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Letters&Opinion
Location Confirmed
The Library of Congress correctly labeled
the photo on P. 23 of your October 2014
issue showing Union soldiers at a log
blockhouse, which was in fact taken
on the Virginia side of the
Potomac River. The canal
in the background of
the photograph is not
the C&O Canal on the
Maryland side of the
Potomac River, it is
the Alexandria Canal in
Virginia. Even if the glass
plate image of the log small fort
was printed in reverse, there is no way the canal in the image could be the C&O Canal. The island in the photo
is today known as Roosevelt Island, but was known as Mason’s Island in the 1860s. The Naval Observatory has
also moved to a different location. All these factors contributed to the confusion about the site’s location.
—Paul Bolcik
Rockville, Md.
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Mike Monce writes: Regarding the Block-
house image in the October 2014 issue, if
the two landmarks (Naval Observatory
and Washington Monument) are correct,
then all one has to do is set a caliper at the
angle between the two landmarks. This is
the angle between the two from the cam-
era’s view. I used both the Johnson and
Ward 1862 map of D.C. and the modern
Googlemap. Interestingly, the Johnson
LETTER
of
NOTE
Editor’s note: Mr. Bolcik helped us solve this puzzle. In the above detail from a U.S. War
Department map done in 1861, a canal is shown on the Virginia side of the river. The
cartographer labeled the watercourse the “C&O Canal” (off map); it is actually the Alexandria
Canal, which linked to the C&O by an aqueduct that crossed the Potomac. The circle we
have placed on the map indicates the general position of the blockhouse during the war. The
Alexandria Canal was designed to link the C&O to oceangoing ships by connecting to the port
at Alexandria, Va. So the image was in fact taken on the Virginia side of the Potomac.
Mr. Bolcik will receive a copy of Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh
Sherman for having his correspondence selected as this issue’s Letter of Note.
map shows a “National Observatory”
located just west of the current Depart-
ment of State. Either way, the camera had
to be located south of the two landmarks
in order to get the perspective seen. Lay-
ing the calipers on the maps and using the
“National Observatory,” or the current
position of the Naval Observatory, one
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the NW corner or the SW corner of what
is now Reagan National Airport. Maybe
the Library of Congress is correct?
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President Abraham Lincoln’s hand
was shaking. New Year’s Day
festivities on January 1, 1863 began
at 11 A.M. The hundreds of hands
Lincoln shook at the White House
left the nation’s chief executive with a
tremor he could not afford.
About noon, President Lincoln took
time out from shaking hands to sign the
corrected Emancipation Proclamation.
Frederick Seward, assistant secretary of
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speedily joined us. The broad sheet
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Reading the Emancipation Proclamation
Novels
to Explore
Editor Dana Shoaf’s recollection
of the historical novel Rifles
for Waitie in October brought
to mind a series of Civil War–
themed novels for young adults
that’s now nearly 100 years old.
Between 1914 and 1916, Joseph
A. Altsheler, newspaper man
and prolific author of historical
novels, penned a series of eight
books about the adventures of
Dick Mason (Union) and his
cousin Harry Kenton (Confeder-
ate) in the war’s major battles.
Altsheler was a Kentuckian by
birth so, not surprisingly, four of
the novels are from the Northern
point of view and four are from
the South’s. Long out of print,
they can still be found online on
several websites. Amazon has a
one-volume print edition of all
eight novels.
—Gordon Berg
Greenbelt, Md.
Revisionist?
With all due respect, Dana B.
Shoaf’s statement in “Thoughts
& Comments” on Slavery’s
Hazards that slavery “was a
stain on the whole country” is
just more liberal-progressive-
revisionist-interpretation of
history. President Lincoln
abolished slavery. Case closed.
President Reagan said racism is
basically dead in America; it’s
the race baiters who keep it
alive.
—Stephen Wassel
Corolla, N.C.
Editor’s note: The statement
that slavery “was a stain on the
whole country” is merely
amplifying what Harriet
Beecher Stowe was arguing in
her antebellum book, not a
comment on our modern society.
That was made clear in my
editorial. I strongly agree with
Stowe’s assessment of 19th-
century America.
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I was pleased to see your feature “Campaigns of the
Imagination” in the October issue. I was 12 years old
when the nation began to commemorate the Civil War
Centennial in 1961. I had my blue and gray battle set up
in my bedroom on a large sand table built by my father,
where I must admit I let off a few firecrackers when no
one was around. This began my lifelong interest in the
Fond Memories
The mention of Robert E. Lee’s
name on a Navy submarine in
Michael G. Williams October
book review, and Violet Snow’s
“In Search of Private Davies”
revived memories of a 2011 trip
to Newport News, Va.
My wife and I attended a crew
reunion of the submarine USS
Robert E. Lee, SSBN-601. We
then visited the Wilderness bat-
tlefield, as my wife’s great-great-
grandfather, Absolum Barr of
the 37th North Carolina, was
“missing” after that battle.
We walked the area around
the Widow Tapp Farm and the
Orange Plank Road. Ms. Snow
talks of a “gut feeling” and
that she “sensed a connection”
with her relative. We both felt
that! What an awakening of the
senses. I know that we did not
walk in his exact steps, but being
that close brought me the chills.
We sat on the grass and savored
the moment, one that we both
will never forget, and which
became the true high point of the
entire trip. Thank you.
—Michael W. O’Brien
Redwood City, Calif.
period, and fascination with miniature figures depicting
the era. I now assemble and paint metal figures in 54mm
scale from a variety of vendors. My current passion is to
video and “green screen” my figures in photos of land-
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