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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:
- The United States Colored Troops Institute for Local History and Family Research at Hartwick College.
- Field Music of the Civil War, By David Poulin On site of 1st New Mexico Volunteer Infantry (Reenactment Unit).
- Brooklyn in the Civil War Brooklyn Public Library project page to access drummer boy images including unknown youth from 78th Regiment, U.S.C.I. (United States Colored Infantry).
- National Park Service site's Exploring the Civil War: Looking at Pictures. Excellent group photo of CW field musicians.
- National Park Service's Gettysburg National Military Park site page: "What was life as a soldier like in 1863?"
Detailed description of field musician daily routine.
- Library of Congress American Memory site's Civil War Band Photo Gallery: Drum Corps. 6 photos of CW field musician grups, 3 from NYS including an unrestored version of image cited immediately above re NPS site's "Looking at Pictures." [93rd NY Inf.].
- Chris Myers's Repertoire for the Kentish Guards Fife & Drum Corps 2004. Excellent source of field music files.
- "Maine Antique Digest" article Beloved Statue of Civil War Drummer Boy Stolen but Recovered Three Days Later. by David Hewett. Source of image used in our presentation.
- National Trust for Historic Preservation's magazine "Preservation" article Little Drummer Boy Statue Returns to Bronx Cemetery by Amanda Hurley.
- 9th New York Vol. Inf. (Hawkins' Zouaves).
Medal of Honor Recipient Julius Langbein.
- Former Army Sgt. C. Douglas Sterner's HomeOfHeroes.com. Civil War Coloring Book Page 4 depicts drummer boy Julius Langbein.
- Brian R. Downey's Antietam on the Web. Musician Johann Christoph Julius Langbein. Bio notes. One of several sites featuring photo of drummer boy Langbein.
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Mollan, Mark C., The Army Medal of Honor: The First Fifty-five Years. Prologue Magazine, Summer 2001, Vol. 33, No. 2.
- U.S. Army Bands Online.
- On Antonio Lupher's Civil War Music Site: "The Drummers' and Fifers' Guide." By George B. Bruce and Daniel D Emmett, New York, 1862. Source of book images. Excellent site for Civil War music history, images, lyrics, sound files, resources and links.
- University of Toronto Music Professor Robin Engelman's " Brief History of Music for Fifes and Field Drums " on the NEXUS Percussion site.
- Jason Wickersty's Field Musicians Homepage.
- Don Hubbard's Field Music School.
- Army of the Columbia Fife and Drum Corps. Washington (State) Civil War Association document proposing establishment of such a corps. Extensive historical background.
- The 3rd GVI and the 9th New York Infantry. The very detailed and very moving account by Heather Mitchell, Rochester, NY, about how in 1890 and 1891 old foes who had foght each other repeatedly throughout the Civil War met again in peace and reconciliation with and tribute to each other. The key role that Julius Langbein of the 9th New York Infantry survivors group played key role in the reunions is documented.
- Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Oliver Tilden Camp #26. Visit with services mausoleum of Julius Langbein, 9th New York Volunteers hero drummerboy.
- Benjamin Robert Tubbs' "Music of the American Civil War. Site worth visiting to sample music of the era. Excellent selections but did not use in the presentation.
- Dave Mercado's The George H. Thomas Home Page [site] includes a Civil War Music list, the source of several of the sound files used in this presentation: "The Minstrel Boy," "Dixie," and "Taps" (keyboard) -- all sequenced by Barry Taylor. "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!" sequenced by Lesley Nelson. "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" sequenced by Charlie Glasgow.
- Instant Knowledge site includes a Words, Music and History of the Songs "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" and "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye." A pre-CW Irish song is credited as the root melody. Our presentation uses the Irish melody version (Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye) sequenced by Barry Taylor.
- Lesley Nelson-Burns' "Contemplator" site includes [Barry] Taylors's Traditional Tunebook. Her site is a treasury of information and sound files of folk and traditional music.
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 Kim Beall's Beall Page: President Lincoln and the Case of John Yates Beall by Isaac Markens. 1911. Source of image used in our presentation.
- FindLaw, the Thomson high-trafficked law-related web resource for the general public as well as for legal prodessionals, includes in its case law section the U.S. Supreme Court opnion EX PARTE QUIRIN, 317 U.S. 1 (1942)
- Trying Terrorists Before Military Commissions: Precedents and Perspectives. By William Michael Jr. and Joseph Margulies.
- West Virginia Division of Culture and History.
Excerpt from Memoir of John Yates Beall.
- "Richmond Examiner" Wednesday, March 1, 1865.
The Execution of John Yates Beall, C.S.N.
- Middle Bass on the Web site:
The Wine Islands of Lake Erie. by Constance F. Woolson, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Volume 47, Number 277.
- Iowa History Project site:
A Confederate Spy. by Bruce E. Mahan, "The Palimpsest" Edited By John Ely Briggs Vol. IV February 1923 No. 2.
- Federation of American Scientists (FAS) site:
Counterintelligence in World War II. Edited by Frank Rafalko.
- Ellsworth American site:
Nazi Spies at Hancock Point Recalled Anew by Local Author (Bar Harbor native Richard Gay). By Jonathan Levitt. Ellsworth American.com is a service of The Ellsworth American., Ellsworth, ME "Maine's Largest Weekly Newspaper"
- Blethen Maine Newspapers site:
1944: When spies came to Maine. By Gregory D. Kesich, Portland Press Herald Writer.
- Cornell University Library's "Making of America " includes
A Great Advocate - James T. Brady, by I. Edwards Clarke published in "The Galaxy" May 1869 by W. C. and F. P. Church. Includes bio information and image of James T. Brady. Several cases in which Brady was involved are mention, some with detail, the Beall case is not among those detailed. But it is mentioned in passing: "He was counsel in fifty-two capital cases, in not one of which was he ever unsuccessful, except in that of Beall, who was tried by a court-martial at Fort Lafayette, on charge of being a "spy and guerilla."
On-line sources of Taps, Gen. Butterfield and Lt. O. W. Norton information and images used in this presentation include:
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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.
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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).
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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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