Jamie Flanagan , ( Ok, Jim Eggers) here!
It's been awhile since our first blog posting. Lots going on with my newly retired from teaching life and Dawn's new venture into self employment. We have quite a few ideas, Historical Parody being the first one. It is very exciting while at the same time being a bit scary. We'll see how the Lord works this all out with us.
I have an added note about the brief foray we made out east last month. In visiting the battlefields big and small, we had to drive through many small towns that held the wounded evacuated from these battles. Almost all of these towns, some now small cities, have grave yards small and large, (The National Cemetery in Winchester, Va. is an example of one of the larger ones) with the graves of men wounded on the nearby battlefields. Their numbers were from dozens of men to hundreds and even in the thousands, men who may not have been on the dead rolls when the battles tallies were taken, but who in the end would never again appear on the active duty rolls of their units. Thus the tallies for killed of any battle are in effect actually larger then the numbers given. Just a sobering thought.
One more thought that gives a glimpse into the past is the difference between the graveyards of whites and blacks of the Civil War era and beyond.. We ran across the site near the First Manassas Battlefield of a former female slave named Jennie Dean. She was responsible for the establishment the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth in 1894.. While her grave site was quite prominent, the rest of the black graves were very simple with just a small rock, stone, iron and even old wooden crosses marking their location. The older white graveyards are in most cases noted by much larger markers and better kept grounds. I guess it says something about the status of the people groups of an earlier era.
It's been awhile since our first blog posting. Lots going on with my newly retired from teaching life and Dawn's new venture into self employment. We have quite a few ideas, Historical Parody being the first one. It is very exciting while at the same time being a bit scary. We'll see how the Lord works this all out with us.
I have an added note about the brief foray we made out east last month. In visiting the battlefields big and small, we had to drive through many small towns that held the wounded evacuated from these battles. Almost all of these towns, some now small cities, have grave yards small and large, (The National Cemetery in Winchester, Va. is an example of one of the larger ones) with the graves of men wounded on the nearby battlefields. Their numbers were from dozens of men to hundreds and even in the thousands, men who may not have been on the dead rolls when the battles tallies were taken, but who in the end would never again appear on the active duty rolls of their units. Thus the tallies for killed of any battle are in effect actually larger then the numbers given. Just a sobering thought.
One more thought that gives a glimpse into the past is the difference between the graveyards of whites and blacks of the Civil War era and beyond.. We ran across the site near the First Manassas Battlefield of a former female slave named Jennie Dean. She was responsible for the establishment the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth in 1894.. While her grave site was quite prominent, the rest of the black graves were very simple with just a small rock, stone, iron and even old wooden crosses marking their location. The older white graveyards are in most cases noted by much larger markers and better kept grounds. I guess it says something about the status of the people groups of an earlier era.
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