Non-Commercial Use Permission, Bibliography, and Source Credits

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On-line sources of Governors Island and Jonathan Williams information and images used in this presentation include:

On-line sources of field musician, practice school and instruction song book information, images and music files used in this presentation include: On-line sources of Chiricahua Apaches and Generals Crook, Miles, Warren and Sheridan information and images used in this presentation include:
  • The web site of Regeneration Reservation of Fort Thomas, AZ includes a page on The Battle of a Wounded, but Winning, Apache Warrior (Naiche), Includes several related images. Source of Geronimo & Naiche horseback image in this presentation.
  • Alabama Department of Archives & History's web site includes a section entitled the Silas Orlando Trippe Photograph collection, a collection of photos of Mt. Vernon Barracks, Alabama.
  • U. S. Corps of Topographical Engineers' web site includes a biography page on Gouverneur Kemble Warren. Source of image in our presentation.
  • Patrick McSherry's The Spanish American War Centennial Website includes a Nelson Appleton Miles bio by Luis F. Clemente. Source of image in our presentation.
  • Apache Conflict in Graham County Arizona group website includes a San Carlos Indian Reservation page by John N. Morris detailing (1) Sheridan's forcing Crook to request transfer and (2) Miles' including Crook's Apache scouts sent East as prisoners.
  • The U.S. Army Center of Military History website includes a Nelson Appleton Miles bio and portrait page in a section on commanding generals and chiefs of staff. Also a bio and portrait page on Sheridan. It is the source of his image in our presentation.
  • National Park Service Fort Davis website includes a Turret Peak, Arizona history page featuring a photo of Gen Crook, the source of his image in our presentation.
  • PBS website section New Perspectives on the West includes a page on Nelson Appleton Miles that cites his sending Crook's Apache scouts East as prisoners,
  • Gary Feuerstein's informative and interesting Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World includes an early Bartholdi statue image adapted in our presentation. This is a site well worth visiting by those researching the statue and the poem..
On-line sources of Union and CSA POWs Chaplain Whelan information and images used in this presentation include:
  • Retired Oklahoma Highway Patrol Officer Bruce Schulze's excellent and extensive CivilWarAlbum.com web site includes several pages on the Andersonville National Historic Site, Page 8 and 9 of which include Father Peter Whelan Marker with text from the markers. Page 8 is the source of kneeling priest marker image version in this presentation.
  • Ed Jackson's GeorgiaInfo, an online extensive about-Georgia resource offered by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia, includes a Georgia Historical Markers section with a page featuring another Father Peter Whelan Historical Marker in front of Depot Museum and Welcome Center in Andersonville, Ga. Source of image version in this presentation. The page includes the text from the marker.
  • Ed Churchill, a superb storyteller who has authored books on the Civil War, spins his carefully-researched tale about Fr. Whalem whom he call the Blue & Gray Chaplain on the CivilWarWeb.Com site.
  • AmericanCatholic.Org site includes page listing Historical Highlights of St. Peter's. Lower Manhattan parish helped Fr. Whalen's ministry to CSA soldiers held as POWs on Governors Island.
  • A Confederate Yankee: The Journal of Edward William Drummond, A Confederate Soldier From Maine. Edited by Roger S. Durham. Clint Johnson's book review in "The Civil War News" includes a brief reference to the CSA prisoner's experience on Governor's Island.
On-line sources of Confederate and Nazi spies information and images used in this presentation include: On-line sources of Taps, Gen. Butterfield and Lt. O. W. Norton information and images used in this presentation include:
  • Twenty-Four Notes That Tap Deep Emotions: The story of America's most famous bugle call. By Jari Villanueva, curator of the Taps Exhibit at Arlington National Cemetery and a Civil War reenactor. His site is excellent resource on Taps including sound files, music score, links, tips, bugle history, etc. The file of SGM Woody English, U.S. Army Band, playing on a B flat Bach Stradivarius Field Trumpet (bugle) is from Jari's site.
  • Kir-Shalom site: The Story of Taps (Aprocryphal and Otherwise). Includes traditional lyrics. The story is "otherwise" -- very moving, worth pondering, but not given much historical credence. The lyrics are the customary verses. The site does make available MIDI and WAV files of Taps plus other "Taps" links including to a more historically recognized version of its origin.
  • U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Band. Excellent source for MP3 files of exquisitely played ceremonial and patriotic music including the haunting Echo Taps (Two Trumpets) and Amazing Grace (bagpipes and band).
  • U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Band. Excellent source for MP3 files of exquisitely played ceremonial and patriotic music including the haunting Echo Taps (Two Trumpets) and Amazing Grace (bagpipes and band).
  • Thomas R. Fasulo's Battle of Olustee site includes pages relating to Eighth United States Colored Troops Lt. O. W. Norton, who prior to joining it was Gen. Butterfield's bugler and helped score Taps. Source of sketch.
  • GlobalSecurity.org site: Bugle Calls. Well-designed page filled with information, sound files, and lines on bugle calls including taps.
  • NYC Parks & Recreation Dept. page about his statue in Sakura Park (provides a brief bio on Gen. Daniel Butterfield, Taps "composer." Directly east of Grant’s Tomb, the park faces the Hudson near Riverside Church and W 122th St.
  • The web site of Dunham Public Library in Oneida County hosts The General Daniel Butterfield Civil War Roundtable web page featuring images and information about the Taps "composer" and about the activities of the roundtable. The page is the source of his image in this presentation.
On-line sources of Governors Island & West Point chapels, U.S. Col. Singer and Israeli Gen./U.S. Col. Marcus information and images used in this presentation include:
  • The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise's Jewish Virtual Library web site includes American Jewish Historical Society's bio of Israeli Gen./U.S. Col. Marcus. It is the source of the image used in our presentation.
  • The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs' web site includes a page on MACHAL - Overseas Volunteers. During the War of Independence, some 3,500 volunteers from 37 different countries rallied to Israel's defense. These young men and women, Jews as well as non-Jews, were known as MACHAL (Mitnadvei Chutz-La'Arets) - the Hebrew acronym for overseas volunteers. The page includes a thumbnail version of the same image and a brief summary of Marcus' MACHAL service.
  • On Barnard Electronic Archive And Teaching Laboratory (BEATL) site: Early Columbia College Biographies includes very brief bio note on Rev. Dr. John McVickar. The site is also the source of his image in this presentation
  • Joe Schumacher's pages of Governor's Island photos includes fine one of Chapel of St. Cornelius the Centurion. It wasn't used but worth a look as are the others. Captions contain useful information. The Liberty Island from Governors Island ferry image was used.
  • The late Jack A. Eckert's web site, Jack's Joint, an unofficial library of Coast Guard articles being continued by his son Daniel, includes Confessions Of A Chaplain On Duty With the Coast Guard. By Don Robinson.
  • The Jewish Theological Seminary's web site includes a page on Rabbi Sidney M. Bogner Papers. It contains a biographical note.
  • The Guest Speakers section of the web site of Temple Beth-El, San Antonio, Texas includes the text of a talk on The Founding of the Jewish Chapel at West Point given by Col. Merton Singer on the occasion of Armed Forces Sabbath July 9, 1999.
  • The web site of Porter Loring Mortuaries, San Antonio, Texas, includes an obituary on Col. Merton Singer US Army (Ret.). Source of his image in our presentation.
  • The virtual tour section of the U.S. Military Academy web site includes a page Jewish Chapel at West Point. Source of its image in our presentation.
  • Christina M. Wilkinson's web site includes her very interesting and informative Governors Island History and Tour Photos presenation. It consists of five pages, more than 60 images and a vast amount of historical information -- a virtual tour well worth taking. The third page in her series is entitled "Nolan Park" and is the source of the Jewish Chapel image used in our presentation.
  • Nancy E Lutz' Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page (site) includes Uncle Sam's Prisoners In Castle Williams, June 9, 1907 feature article in the Brooklyn Standard Union. Excerpts appear in our presentation's "Castle Williams Prison Life 1st Decade of 20th Century" section, including reference to the prisoners attending Sunday afternoon services in the then new Episcopal chapel
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  • Page 1 -- The page includes an opening overview and sections entitled "van Twiller, John Jay & Jonathan Williams" and the "School of Practice for Field Musicians."
  • Page 2 -- Includes "The Execution of John Yates Beall, C.S.N." and "Saboteur's Gallows Song in Governors Island Drum Major's Music Book."
  • Page 3 -- Includes "Chaplain to POWs at Governors Island and Andersonville " and "Governors Island Prisoners Included Chiricahua Apaches."
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    Page 4 -- Includes "Castle Williams Prison Life 1st Decade of 20th Century" and "Chapels on Governors Island."
  • Page 5 -- Includes "East Coast 'Alcatraz' " and "1966, a West Point chapel, 'Taps' & [late 1930s NYC Correction Commissioner] 'Michael Stone' ."
  • Page 6 -- This current page includes above Non-Commercial Use Permission, Bibliography, and Source Credits.

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