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San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires: Audrey Bergner observes the intricate craftsmanship within a traditional Argentine silversmith's workshop, where time-honored techniques are preserved amidst walls lined with iron tools. Natural light filters through large, grid-paned windows, casting a soft glow over the cluttered wooden workbenches and the central fireplace that anchors the room. A veteran artisan remains focused at his station, his presence a testament to the enduring legacy of gaucho metalwork that defines this historic town. The atmosphere is thick with history, defined by the rich patina on the tools and the complex geometric patterns of the tiled floor beneath. This interior space bridges the gap between past and present, offering a rare glimpse into the meticulous manual labor required to produce authentic silverware. Such workshops are essential cultural hubs that maintain the spirit of Argentine tradition in an increasingly mechanized world, serving as vital repositories of regional skill and artistry. The composition utilizes a deep depth of field to capture both the observer in the foreground and the artisan in the background, balancing the narrative of curiosity with the reality of production. This image is a collaborative production by Samuel Jeffery and Audrey Bergner for Project 23.

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San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires: Audrey Bergner observa la intrincada artesanía dentro de un taller tradicional de platería argentina, donde técnicas consagradas por el tiempo se preservan entre paredes cubiertas de herramientas de hierro. La luz natural se filtra a través de grandes ventanas cuadriculadas, proyectando un brillo suave sobre los desordenados bancos de trabajo de madera y la chimenea central que ancla la habitación. Un veterano artesano permanece concentrado en su estación, su presencia es un testimonio del legado perdurable de la metalurgia gauchesca que define a esta ciudad histórica. La atmósfera está cargada de historia, definida por la rica pátina de las herramientas y los complejos patrones geométricos del piso de baldosas. Este espacio interior cierra la brecha entre el pasado y el presente, ofreciendo un vistazo poco común a la meticulosa labor manual necesaria para producir platería auténtica. Estos talleres son centros culturales esenciales que mantienen el espíritu de la tradición argentina en un mundo cada vez más mecanizado, sirviendo como depósitos vitales de habilidad y destreza regional. La composición utiliza una profundidad de campo profunda para capturar tanto a la observadora en primer plano como al artesano en el fondo, equilibrando la narrativa de la curiosidad con la realidad de la producción. Esta imagen es una producción colaborativa de Samuel Jeffery y Audrey Bergner para el Proyecto 23.

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c. 2012
Asahi Pentax

The history of American model railroading in an old magazine from the mid 20th Century.

The history of American model railroading in an old magazine from the mid 20th Century.

The history of American model railroading in an old magazine from the mid 20th Century.

The history of American model railroading in an old magazine from the mid 20th Century.

The history of American model railroading in an old magazine from the mid 20th Century.

The history of American model railroading in an old magazine from the mid 20th Century.

The history of American model railroading in an old magazine from the mid 20th Century.

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A view across a portion of the Gettysburg Battlefield.

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Major General John Buford

Buford

In memory of
Major General John Buford
Comdg. 1st Div. Cav. Corps Army of the Potomac
who with the first inspiration of a cavalry officer
selected this battlefield July 1st, 1863.

From this crest was fired the opening gun of the battle:
one of the four cannon at the base of this memorial.

John Buford was born in Kentucky on March 4, 1826. He was the half-brother of Union General Napoleon B. Buford and the cousin of Confederate General Abraham Buford.

West Point trained and a veteran of the 2nd Dragoons, Buford recognized the importance of Gettysburg’s strategic position as a hub of several major roads. He expertly positioned his division to delay the Confederate forces advancing on the city until Union infantry could reach the field, allowing the Army of the Potomac to control the vital high ground south and east of town throughout the battle.

Buford did not survive the year. Stricken with typhoid during the autumn campaign on the Rappahannock, he died on Dec. 16, 1863. A deathbed promotion to Major General was made effective to July 1, 1863, his triumph at Gettysburg.

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123rd New York Infantry Regiment
Washington County Regiment

The 123rd New York Infantry Regiment was commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg by Lieutenant Colonel James C. Rogers while its colonel, Archibald McDougall, commanded the brigade. It brought 495 men to the field, losing 3 men killed, 10 wounded and 1 missing.

Text from the front of the monument:

123rd New York Infantry
1st Brigade 1st Division 12th Corps

Historic
The 123rd N.Y. was enlisted in Washington Co. in Aug. 1862 mustered into the U.S. service Sept. Joined the Army of the Potomac and was engaged in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. In Sept. 1863 transferred to the Army of the Cumberland and was engaged in the Campaign of Atlanta the March to the Sea and the Campaign of the Carolinas. Mustered out at Washington at the close of the war June 8, 1865.
From the right side of the monument:

Service at Gettysburg
July 1: Marched from Littlestown; Formed line
of battle on Wolf Hill; Bivouaced near Baltimore Pike

July 2: Advanced to this line and built a heavy breastwork of logs. At about 6 p.m. moved to support the left near Little Round Top;
Returning in the night found works in possession of enemy, as no troops were left to occupy them.

July 3, at about 11 a.m. made a charge and recovered these works; about 4 p.m. moved to support line then repelling Pickett’s Charge; a little later had a sharp skirmish in front of this line; at night repelled an attack with heavy loss to the enemy.

July 4, made reconnaissance around Wolf Hill
and through Gettysburg over the Hanover Road.
From the left side of the monument:

Engagements
Chancellorsville • Kulp’s Farm
Gettysburg • Chattahoochie River
Resaca • Peach Tree Creek
Cassville • Atlanta
New Hope Church • Montieth’s Swamp
Lost Mt. • Savannah
Pine Hill • Averysboro
Kennesaw • Bentonville
Moccasin Swamp
From the rear:

123rd New York
The Washington County Regiment
12th and 20th Corps

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Army of the Potomac
Artillery Reserve
First Regular Brigade
Capt. Dunbar R. Ransom

1st U. S. Battery H
Lieut. Chandler P. Eakin Lieut. Philip D. Mason
July 2. and 3. Engaged on Cemetery Hill.

3d U. S. Batteries F and K
Lieut. John G. Turnbull
July 2. Engaged on Emmitsburg Road on right of the Smith House.
July 3. On and near Cemetery Ridge.

4th U. S. Battery C
Lieut. Evan Thomas
July 2 and 3. Engaged on Cemetery Ridge on left of Second Corps.

5th U. S. Battery C
Lieut. Julian V. Weir
July 2 and 3. Engaged on Cemetery Ridge and in front on left of Second Corps.

Casualties Killed 1 Officer 12 Men Wounded 4 Officers 49 Men Captured or Missing 2 Men Total 68
Captain Dunbar R. Ransom

Captain Dunbar R. Ransom commanded the brigade at Gettysburg. Ransom was born in North Carolina but grew up in Vermont. His father was the colonel of the 9th United States Infantry who was killed in the Mexican War and his brother Thomas became a brigadier general in the Western Theater of the Civil War. After attending but not graduating from the United States Military Academy Dunbar was appointed lieutenant in the 3rd United States Artillery in 1855.

With the outbreak of the Civil War Ransom was promoted to captain and given command of Battery C, 5th United States Artillery. He led the battery at Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. After Chancellorsville Randall was given command of the 1st Regular Brigade of the Artillery Reserve. Ransom was wounded by a sharpshooter on July 2.

Battery C was sent to New York during the draft riots. When it returned to the Army of the Potomac it became part of the 2nd Horse Artillery Brigade. Randall took command of the brigade in May of 1864 and commanded Batteries CF&K (combined) of the 3rd United States Artillery in Sheridan’s Army of the Shenandoah, remaining with the department until the end of the war.

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A civil war ambulance located inside the George Spangler Farm.

George Spangler Farm

Nestled between fields and timber, a stone house and red bank barn still stand just south of Gettysburg. The attractive farm was owned for much of the nineteenth century by George Spangler, who lived there from 1848 until his death in 1904. All was not pristine and pleasant for George and his family, however, during the summer of 1863.

George Spangler was the eldest son of farmer and prolific property owner Abraham Spangler and his wife, Mary. George was just a youth when he lost his mother, and his father soon remarried. In all, Abraham Spangler was the father of eleven children. It was George’s half-brother Henry, the eldest son of the second marriage, who inherited much of his father’s estate. Henry’s farm is the one located on what would become the fields of Pickett’s Charge in the summer of 1863. The brothers lived only a few miles apart.

George was “a man of truthfulness and honesty in all things.” He was a dedicated farmer, and worked the land tirelessly. He purchased the farm that would bear his name in 1848 from Henry Bishop. Bishop had purchased the land from the former owner, John Dodds, who lived in an old log house on the property located in Cumberland Township just south of Gettysburg. Mr. Dodds received the land by purchasing it from the Manor of Maske, a large tract of land originally owned by the heirs of William Penn, situated on and around what would become the Borough of Gettysburg.1

George and his wife, Elizabeth, were the parents of nine children: Harriet, Benjamin, Sabina Catherine, Daniel, Almira, Beniah, Mary, George, and Emma. The family needed a larger abode than the old log cabin where John Dodds had lived. George built a spacious stone house, which, by the summer of 1863, was two stories high. There was also a fine bank barn, a summer kitchen, a smokehouse, and a wash house. Through the decades, the farm was always in “first class condition”. Mr. Spangler’s farm also contained orchards, a wheatfield, a corn field, an oat field, and a meadow for his livestock. There was plentiful timber of oak and hickory trees that surrounded the property, and a stream ran through for the watering of livestock.2

The idyllic existence came to an abrupt end in the early summer of 1863. By that time, only four of George Spangler’s children remained at home. On June 30 and July 1, 1863, the Union army, which came for battle, camped in Spangler’s fields. By the evening, the Federal Eleventh Corps established a field hospital on George Spangler’s farm.3

George and Elizabeth decided to stay on their farm, partly to keep their eyes on their property. It was, after all, miles from the battlefield, and the stone walls would stop any bullets from penetrating their home. They soon regretted their decision, as artillery shells shrieked and exploded, and wounded and dying filled their barn and the lower floor of their home. It was estimated that up to 1800 wounded were at George’s farm at one time.

“Our hospital is a large barn and is full of some 200 on the first floor where I am,” a soldier from the 17th Connecticut Infantry wrote to his wife. “There are some 80 men in the barn with legs and arms off & it is enough to make one’s heart bleed to witness the amputations.” He added, “You know nothing of the horrors of war & cannot until you go & see it for yourself.”4

Through the duration of the battle, the Spangler family waited, trapped, on the second story of their home.

In addition to the Eleventh Corps wounded, some of the wounded from Pickett's Charge were also placed at the Spangler Farm. Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead, a commander in Pickett’s Charge, fell mortally wounded at the High-Water Mark on Cemetery Ridge. He was taken to George Spangler’s farm, where he was placed in the summer kitchen. “Armistead did not groan or move” after he was shot, and for a while those around him thought he was already dead. 5

Armistead lived for two days at George Spangler’s summer kitchen, before expiring on July 5.6

Another who died at the Spangler Farm was the ancestor of a future U.S. President. George Nixon, a private in the 73rd Ohio Infantry and father of nine children, was severely wounded while fighting near the cemetery on the second day. Part of Colonel Orland Smith’s Brigade, Nixon was a member of the Eleventh Corps – so it was natural that he would be taken to the corps field hospital. He died on July 14, 1863.7

There were hundreds more who breathed their last on the Spangler Farm. The overcrowded conditions, the heat, and the miasma of death worsened for all in the vicinity. “The offal and skins of cattle slaughtered for beef were left just where the animals were killed,” one surgeon at the field hospital wrote. “All of those vile things were left unburied…the sink holes of the men were uncovered…and the stench from all these sources pollutes and poisoned the air.”8

When the guns of battle finally grew silent and the Spanglers could leave their home at last, George Spangler surveyed his ruined property. When Mr. Spangler requested reimbursement from the U.S. Government, he claimed that his property was used as a hospital for 37 days.9

George Spangler spent nearly two decades attempting to receive funds for his damaged and destroyed property – to no avail. He requested over three thousand dollars for his destroyed oat, corn and wheat crops, his ruined fences and barn, the depletion of his stores and the damage to his home. In all, he received just ninety dollars.10

George Spangler repaired and replaced his broken farm, and continued to work until all was restored. He and Elizabeth, and their children lived to see the new century.

At the beginning of the year 1904, Mr. Spangler worked in the freezing temperatures, chopping wood for many hours. He took cold, and returned to his home. He never recovered, and died on February 2, 1904 of “exposure added to infirmities of old age.” He was 88 years old. Until his death, he had never had an illness – a trait shared by many of his family. At his funeral, five of his eleven siblings attended, including Henry, whose farm had also seen much damage from Pickett’s Charge.11

George Spangler was buried in Evergreen Cemetery. His wife, Elizabeth, died in 1907.12

Today, the farm and former field hospital is owned by the National Park Service and is operated by the Gettysburg Foundation.

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View across the Gettysburg Battlefield.

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6th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
Rush’s Lancers

The regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Major James H. Haseltine and was part of the Reserve Brigade of the 1st Division of the Cavalry Corps. The detachment of Companies E & I to Army Headquarters was commanded by Captain Emlen Carpenter.

The regiment’s nickname came from being the only cavalry unit in the army armed with lances, which are depicted on the Emmitsburg Road monument. It was an idea that proved impractical in the tangled forests of Northern Virginia, and the lances had been discarded by July of 1863.

Companies E & I, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry

From the front of the monument near Meade’s HQ:

Co’s E & I
6th Penna. Cavalry
“Lancers”
Reserve Brigade 1st Div. Cavalry Corps
On duty as escort to Maj. Gen’l. George G. Meade
Com’dg Army of the Potomac
Erected by the survivors of the Regiment

From the rear:

The main body of this regiment during the 3d day of the battle were actively engaged on the extreme left flank of the Army on the Emmittsburg Pike, where a monument has been erected commemorating their services. Four companies were specially detailed by Gen. Geo. G. Meade for “hazardous duty in the rear of Lee’s Army.”

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Culp's Hill Tower

Culp's Hill, which is about 3⁄4 mi south of the center of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, played a prominent role in the Battle of Gettysburg. It consists of two rounded peaks, separated by a narrow saddle. Its heavily wooded higher peak is 630 ft above sea level. The lower peak is about 100 feet shorter than its companion. The eastern slope descends to Rock Creek, about 160 feet lower in elevation, and the western slope is to a saddle with Stevens Knoll (formerly McKnight's Hill) with a summit 100 ft lower than the main Culp's Hill summit. The hill was owned in 1863 by farmer Henry Culp and was publicized as "Culp's Hill" by October 31, 1865.

During the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1–3, 1863, Culp's Hill was a critical part of the Union Army defensive line, the principal feature of the right flank, or "barbed" portion of what is described as the "fish-hook" line. Holding the hill was by itself unimportant because its heavily wooded sides made it unsuitable for artillery placement, but its loss would have been catastrophic to the Union army. It dominated Cemetery Hill and the Baltimore Pike, the latter being critical for keeping the Union army supplied and for blocking any Confederate advance on Baltimore or Washington, D.C.

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Colonel George H. Ward

George Hull Ward was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in April of 1826. He was active in the militia, commanding the local company. Ward joined the 15th Massachusetts Infantry as lieutenant colonel when the war broke out. He was badly wounded at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff in October of 1861, losing his foot. He recovered to return to the regiment and was promoted to colonel. On July 2 he was struck and mortally wounded by a shell fragment at the site of the marker. He died the next day.
Text from the front of the monument

Here fell, mortally wounded
July 2d 1863
George H. Ward, Colonel Commanding
15th Mass. Vols.
His comrades and fellow
citizens of Worcester
raise this memorial of his
valor and patriotism.

Text from the rear of the monument:

1st Brig. 2nd Div.
2nd Army Corps.

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George Spangler Farm

Nestled between fields and timber, a stone house and red bank barn still stand just south of Gettysburg. The attractive farm was owned for much of the nineteenth century by George Spangler, who lived there from 1848 until his death in 1904. All was not pristine and pleasant for George and his family, however, during the summer of 1863.

George Spangler was the eldest son of farmer and prolific property owner Abraham Spangler and his wife, Mary. George was just a youth when he lost his mother, and his father soon remarried. In all, Abraham Spangler was the father of eleven children. It was George’s half-brother Henry, the eldest son of the second marriage, who inherited much of his father’s estate. Henry’s farm is the one located on what would become the fields of Pickett’s Charge in the summer of 1863. The brothers lived only a few miles apart.

George was “a man of truthfulness and honesty in all things.” He was a dedicated farmer, and worked the land tirelessly. He purchased the farm that would bear his name in 1848 from Henry Bishop. Bishop had purchased the land from the former owner, John Dodds, who lived in an old log house on the property located in Cumberland Township just south of Gettysburg. Mr. Dodds received the land by purchasing it from the Manor of Maske, a large tract of land originally owned by the heirs of William Penn, situated on and around what would become the Borough of Gettysburg.1

George and his wife, Elizabeth, were the parents of nine children: Harriet, Benjamin, Sabina Catherine, Daniel, Almira, Beniah, Mary, George, and Emma. The family needed a larger abode than the old log cabin where John Dodds had lived. George built a spacious stone house, which, by the summer of 1863, was two stories high. There was also a fine bank barn, a summer kitchen, a smokehouse, and a wash house. Through the decades, the farm was always in “first class condition”. Mr. Spangler’s farm also contained orchards, a wheatfield, a corn field, an oat field, and a meadow for his livestock. There was plentiful timber of oak and hickory trees that surrounded the property, and a stream ran through for the watering of livestock.2

The idyllic existence came to an abrupt end in the early summer of 1863. By that time, only four of George Spangler’s children remained at home. On June 30 and July 1, 1863, the Union army, which came for battle, camped in Spangler’s fields. By the evening, the Federal Eleventh Corps established a field hospital on George Spangler’s farm.3

George and Elizabeth decided to stay on their farm, partly to keep their eyes on their property. It was, after all, miles from the battlefield, and the stone walls would stop any bullets from penetrating their home. They soon regretted their decision, as artillery shells shrieked and exploded, and wounded and dying filled their barn and the lower floor of their home. It was estimated that up to 1800 wounded were at George’s farm at one time.

“Our hospital is a large barn and is full of some 200 on the first floor where I am,” a soldier from the 17th Connecticut Infantry wrote to his wife. “There are some 80 men in the barn with legs and arms off & it is enough to make one’s heart bleed to witness the amputations.” He added, “You know nothing of the horrors of war & cannot until you go & see it for yourself.”4

Through the duration of the battle, the Spangler family waited, trapped, on the second story of their home.

In addition to the Eleventh Corps wounded, some of the wounded from Pickett's Charge were also placed at the Spangler Farm. Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead, a commander in Pickett’s Charge, fell mortally wounded at the High-Water Mark on Cemetery Ridge. He was taken to George Spangler’s farm, where he was placed in the summer kitchen. “Armistead did not groan or move” after he was shot, and for a while those around him thought he was already dead. 5

Armistead lived for two days at George Spangler’s summer kitchen, before expiring on July 5.6

Another who died at the Spangler Farm was the ancestor of a future U.S. President. George Nixon, a private in the 73rd Ohio Infantry and father of nine children, was severely wounded while fighting near the cemetery on the second day. Part of Colonel Orland Smith’s Brigade, Nixon was a member of the Eleventh Corps – so it was natural that he would be taken to the corps field hospital. He died on July 14, 1863.7

There were hundreds more who breathed their last on the Spangler Farm. The overcrowded conditions, the heat, and the miasma of death worsened for all in the vicinity. “The offal and skins of cattle slaughtered for beef were left just where the animals were killed,” one surgeon at the field hospital wrote. “All of those vile things were left unburied…the sink holes of the men were uncovered…and the stench from all these sources pollutes and poisoned the air.”8

When the guns of battle finally grew silent and the Spanglers could leave their home at last, George Spangler surveyed his ruined property. When Mr. Spangler requested reimbursement from the U.S. Government, he claimed that his property was used as a hospital for 37 days.9

George Spangler spent nearly two decades attempting to receive funds for his damaged and destroyed property – to no avail. He requested over three thousand dollars for his destroyed oat, corn and wheat crops, his ruined fences and barn, the depletion of his stores and the damage to his home. In all, he received just ninety dollars.10

George Spangler repaired and replaced his broken farm, and continued to work until all was restored. He and Elizabeth, and their children lived to see the new century.

At the beginning of the year 1904, Mr. Spangler worked in the freezing temperatures, chopping wood for many hours. He took cold, and returned to his home. He never recovered, and died on February 2, 1904 of “exposure added to infirmities of old age.” He was 88 years old. Until his death, he had never had an illness – a trait shared by many of his family. At his funeral, five of his eleven siblings attended, including Henry, whose farm had also seen much damage from Pickett’s Charge.11

George Spangler was buried in Evergreen Cemetery. His wife, Elizabeth, died in 1907.12

Today, the farm and former field hospital is owned by the National Park Service and is operated by the Gettysburg Foundation.