"The Source" June 2017

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Vol. 43, No. 6

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40th Ohio Civil War & 25th Artillery Show MANSFIELD, Ohio—Everyone is talking about the annual Ohio Civil War Show which just celebrated its 40th year.

Over 4,000 people attended the annual show at the Richland County Fairgrounds the first weekend in May. The crowds were heavy throughout the seven buildings on Saturday and steady on Sunday with people of all interests and ages.

Exhibitors were pleased with the many guests; die-hard history buffs were excited to see over 750 tables of rare memorabilia, weapons, books, prints, jewelry, sutler materials, many unique items, and educational displays.

What makes this show so special and still thriving after 40 years, is a family’s passion and

dedication for the love of history and keeping a dream alive. Donald B. Williams of Ashland, Ohio, started the show with just 60 tables, nearly half of it being his own collection, in 1978. Today, his three children and their dedicated committee of family and close friends continue their father’s tradition. Managing this high-quality show, they are proud to say that respecting our history is simply how they were raised.

“This is what we do and what we enjoy doing it. We hope to continue the show for many, many years to come.”

The Ohio Civil War Show offered special outdoor features to educate and entertain the visitors.

Guests enjoy period music by Camp Chase Fife & Drum Corps

One of the hundreds of tables filled with original Civil War artifacts. Courtesy Union Drummer Boy, Gettysburg, Pa.

Inside this issue: 46 – Advertiser Index 36 – Ask The Appraiser 5 – Black Powder,

White Smoke 24 – Book Reviews 44 – Classifieds 28 – Critic’s Corner 38 – Events Section 12 – Inspection, ARMS! 2 – Preservation News 6 – The Source 7 – Through The Lens 11 – The Unfinished Fight 33 – Small Talk-Trivia

Thousands of antique firearms were available for purchase.

Artillery firing demonstrations on Saturday and Sunday were popular with the public. and the 73rd OVI Regiment Band. Abraham Lincoln presented the Gettysburg Address.

Members of the Society of Civil War Surgeons performed a limb amputation on a wounded soldier and the Brigade of the American Revolution, along with Confederate and Union Civil War Infantry, fired weapons and marched perfectly in line as the cannons roared. Special Civil War and World War II Living History encampments, showed visitors how soldiers survived living with very minimal accommodations.

The Artillery Show, added 25 years ago, was a crowd favorite.

The artillery included eras from the Revolutionary War through World War II. This show is the only one of its kind in the United States. Visitors enjoyed seeing full-scale cannons, limbers, caisson, and artillery shells along with an eight cannon line. Reenactors took to the field in full dress to give an educational and entertaining reenactment of artillery firing. The guns sent flames and smoke bellowing out, rolling across the ground with a roar that won’t soon be forgotten.

In addition to celebrating Civil War history, the World War I and World War II exhibitors were added to the Show. A rare encampment set-up within the large barn showed complete living quarters, uniforms, weapons and ammunition.

Display award winners this year included Bill Combs for Best Memorabilia for his display “Aguinaldo’s Army Philippine Soldiers from Katipunan to the Revolutionary Republic.”

Elizabeth Topping won Most

Educational with a very unique topic, “Civil War Effects of the Gentler Sex.” James Brenner received Best Arms for his Rifled Musket display “Miles Greenwood” while Richard Wolfe received Best Photographic Display for “West Virginia Surgeons, Hospital Stewards, and Nurses.” Tom McCrory took the Best GAR Outstanding Display entitled “Grand Army of the Republic Membership Badges 1866–1999.” Ken Baumann received Best Artillery for his rare “WWI Trench Mortars.” Ingrid Holzwarth won Best World Wars for a great story about “Genevieve

Joins the WACS.” Two Judges Awards went to Steve Rigoni for “Oran Rowland’s 3rd Michigan Cavalry” and David Noe for his display covering “The Austrian 1842 Tubelock to Caplock” evolution. Finally, the Best of Show Award 2017 went to Matt Switlik for his rare artillery display entitled “Le Canonde 75.”

Mark your calendars for May 5 and 6, 2018, at the Richland County Fairgrounds, in Mansfield, Ohio. Visit us on Facebook—Ohio Civil War Show and www.ohiocivilwarshow.com.

Elizabeth Topping’s display “Civil War Effects of the Gentler Sex” won Most Educational award.

Just some of the Civil War books that were available. Courtesy Glover’s Bookery, Lexington, Ky.

June 2017

Civil War News

6

The Source

By Michael K. Shaffer

Sample of cross-referencing used in Day by Day.

The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Supplements; and Lincoln Day by Day Continuing in his quest to locate as many documents from President Abraham Lincoln as possible, Roy P Basler, editor of the original Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, which this article explored last month, produced the first of two supplemental volumes in 1974. Writing in the foreword to the first supplement, Basler noted “The continuing effort…to collect all extant unpublished writings or public utterances of Abraham Lincoln that come within the scope as defined in the Foreword to the Collected Works.” Researchers will find the layout and methodology in both supplements the same as found in the original collection.

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The first supplement covers the period from 1832 until 1865 and totals 320 pages. Most of the included documents reside within the Civil War years.

Passing years left Basler an older but no less determined historian. He knew several documents had emerged, some from private collections, others found on the shelves of dealers in Lincolniana. In 1990, shortly after his death in 1989, son Christian finished the compilation of the second supplement. Young

study of Abraham Lincoln.

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Lincoln Day by Day cover, Morningside edition.

Basler had worked hand-in-hand with his father during the collection and editorial stages of this volume, and carried the legacy forward, adhering to the standards outlined in the original works. Much like the first supplement, this volume focuses heavily on the wartime period. Beginning with the year 1848, some of Lincoln’s early employment as an attorney, and up-and-coming politician reside in this volume, but the lion’s share of the work’s 124 pages contains documents written about the war. Unlike the original Collected Works (viewable online at https://quod.lib. umich.edu/l/lincoln/), the supplements exist in printed form only, with the first supplement more readily available for purchase than the second.

Serving as an annotated index of sorts, the Lincoln Day by Day collection offers a fascinating glimpse into his life, from cradle to grave. Working under the direction of Editor-in-Chief Earl Schenck Miers, a team of editors compiled three volumes as part of a Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission project. These three volumes, totaling 1,119 pages, trace the life of the nation’s sixteenth president from his birth in 1809; the first installment covers the years 1809 to 1848. The second, 1849-1860; the final edition and largest of the three, includes Lincoln’s daily events during the war. Miers and his team patterned their work after Basler’s Collected Works, using, as Schenck explained, “…the same symbols for identifying manuscript sources.”

Schenck believed the respective

collections, his and Basler’s, “… are designed to be used together, yet each makes its own distinct (and in some respects unique) contribution to our understanding of the man and his age…day by day did the whole man emerge, and to chart that phenomenon for future historians is the function of these volumes.” C. Percy Powell, the editor of the third volume, described the cross-referencing method used. “Where the action is associated with one of his [Lincoln’s] manuscripts it is keyed to The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln by Roy P. Basler.”

Researchers seeking printed copies of Day by Day can locate the original volumes from various online bookstores. In 1991, Morningside published all three works in one edition; helpful and available. Perhaps many readers will want to consult the fantastic website ‘The Lincoln Log,’ at http://www.thelincolnlog.org/Home.aspx. This site allows users to search a specific date, or use keywords in the advance search feature. Best of all, the resulting search findings contain online links to the text from Basler’s Collected Works!

Thanks to the staff at ‘The Papers of Abraham Lincoln’ (http:// www.papersofabrahamlincoln. org) for their continued work in maintaining and updating ‘The Lincoln Log.’ Also, readers can view each of the three volumes at the following websites. Volume one: https://archive.org/details/ lincolndaybydayc01unit; two: https://archive.org/details/lincolndaybydayc02unit; and three: https://archive.org/details/lincolndaybydayc03unit. Remember to check WorldCat http://www. worldcat.org/ for help in finding printed copies in a local library.

Introducing the Morningside compilation, the editor included a quote from Paul M. Angle, author of A Shelf of Lincoln Books, A Critical and Selective Bibliography of Lincolniana. Angle suggested, “Taken together, these books are to Lincoln study what the steel frame of a skyscraper is to the finished structure.” Basler, Schenck, and the hundreds of others involved in both projects served as top architects. Their designs remain modern, as when first unveiled, and continue to provide researchers with a firm foundation for constructing a

Michael K. Shaffer is a Civil War historian, author, lecturer, and instructor, who remains a member of the Society of Civil War Historians, Historians of the Civil War Western Theater, and the Georgia Association of Historians. Readers may contact him at mkscdr11@gmail.com, or to request speaking engagements via his website www.civilwarhistorian.net. Follow Michael on Facebook www.facebook.com/ michael.k.shaffer and Twitter @ michaelkshaffer.

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