Miscellaneous: June 2008 Archives

Last night, I had a chance to watch the outdoor drama, Tecumseh!, here in Chillicothe, Ohio, where I am on a temporary work assignment. The play was written by seven-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Allen W. Eckert, its music was performed (on tape) by the London Symphony Orchestra, and its narration done by famed Native American actor Graham Greene (perhaps most noted for his work in the movie Dances With Wolves). Situated in a modern 1,800-seat outdoor amphitheater on a small mountaintop in rural Ross County, Tecumseh! is an internationally acclaimed performance with a cast and crew of more than 100 people.

So, what does this have to do with York County Civil War history? As I sat there on a balmy Tuesday night in mid-June with 500 other people, I could not help but think how something of this magnitude concerning York's Civil War history might be a winner -- a way of drawing tourists for a night's stay in York in between tramping Gettysburg, the Hershey Chocolate World, and Amish country in Lancaster County.

A Cannonball reader sent in these photographs taken in Washington, D.C. showing a couple of the statues on the impressive monument to former Union general William T. Sherman (like me, a native of southern Ohio).

The Charge
Photo by Thomas M. Mingus. Copyright 2008. All rights reserved.

If you have a particular favorite Civil War photograph and would like to share it with other Cannonball readers, please send me an e-mail with a digital copy of that photograph, as well as giving me written permission to use that photo in this blog. Photos can be of battlefields, reenactors, sunsets at Gettysburg, monuments, buildings, or anything else that is photogenic and is directly related to this general area's Civil War history. Send them in, and I will publish them over the next few weeks!!

All entries become eligible for a drawing for an autographed copy of my book Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Gordon Expedition when it gets in print.