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Ghosts of Gettysburg Ghosts of Gettysburg : Spirits , Apparitions and Haunted Places of the Battlefield is a book by Mark Nesbitt that details the reports of ghost ly apparitions in the area where the Battle of Gettysburg took place in July 1863 . Nesbitt first heard stories of ghostly sightings and sounds when he was working as park ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park during the 1970s . Following interviews with other rangers , visitors and employees at Gettysburg College , Nesbitt compiled and published " Ghosts of Gettysburg " in 1991 . Following its success , Nesbitt has since released : He has also created a series of videos , and gives battlefield tours .
I . G . Brown I . G . Brown ( June 11 , 1915 – September 26 , 1978 ) was the First Director , Air National Guard ( the former title " Assistant Chief , National Guard Bureau for Air " was changed in 1969 ) August 6 , 1969 – April 19 , 1974 . " The Training and Education Center was established in 1968 as the I . G . Brown Professional Military Education Center , named in honor of the first Director of the Air National Guard , Maj . Gen . I . G . Brown . In 1998 , its name was changed to The I . G . Brown Air National Guard Training and Education Center . " Command Excellence Trophy . Major general I . G . Brown command excellence trophy recipients . 2011 . Region 3 : Colonel Wendy K . Johnson , Commander , 155th Mission Support Group , Nebraska Air National Guard Region 4 : Colonel Roger E . Williams , Jr . , Commander , 145th Operations Group , North Carolina Air National Guard Region 6 : Colonel Christopher R . Alderdice , Commander , 122nd Maintenance Group , Indiana Air National Guard 2008 . Lt Col William G . Siddoway - Region 1 Chaper 9 - 169th Intelligence Squadron , Salt Lake City , Utah Col James R . Summers - Region 2 Chapter 54 - 189th AW / CC , Little Rock , AR Lt Col Steven H . Plamann - Region 3 Chapter 76 - 155th OSF / CC , Lincoln , NE Brig Gen Iwan B . Clontz - Region 4 Chapter 7 - JFHQ - NC / AAGA , Raleigh , NC Lt Col Robert P . Lemieux - Region 5 Chapter 88 - ANGRC / CV , Andrews AFB , MD Capt James E . Robinson - Region 6 Chapter 75 - 183rd SFS CC , Springfield , IL
12 . 7 cm SK C / 34 naval gun The 12 . 7 cm SK C / 34 was a German medium - caliber naval gun deployed on destroyers from 1934 through the Second World War . Some of these guns remained in service until 2003 in the coastal defense units of Norway . Characteristics . The gun could be depressed to - 10° and raised to 30° . It had an arc of fire of 360° , meaning that they could rotate a full circle , able to fire at any given point . The gun fired a high - explosive shell at a muzzle velocity of to a range of .
USRC Miami ( 1862 ) The USRC " Miami " was purchased by the Revenue Cutter Service from Arthur Leary for $ 25 , 000 and was formerly the " Lady Le Marchand " , a 115 foot schooner - rigged steamer with a hull of teak planks over oak frames . After outfitting she was stationed briefly in Washington , D . C . In April , 1862 she transported President Abraham Lincoln and others to Hampton Roads , Virginia soon after the Battle of Hampton Roads between the ironclad s CSS " Virginia " ( ex - USS " Merrimac " ) and the USS " Monitor " . After a transfer to New York City , she was tasked with escorting the captured Confederate steamer CSS " Chesapeake " from Halifax , Nova Scotia to New York City . The " Miami " underwent repairs at Newport , Rhode Island after being transferred there in November , 1864 . Additional repairs were done during 1867 at Staten Island and then she saw service out of Wilmington , Delaware until being sold for $ 2149 in 1871 .
Thomas Lawyer Thomas Lawyer ( October 14 , 1785 Schoharie , New York - May 21 , 1868 Lawyersville , Schoharie County , New York ) was an American politician from New York . Life . He studied law , was admitted to the bar and practiced in Schoharie County . He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1816 . He was a brigadier general of the State militia . Lawyer was elected as a Democratic - Republican to the 15th United States Congress , holding office from March 4 , 1817 , to March 3 , 1819 . He was District Attorney of Schoharie County from 1822 to 1831 . He was again a member of the State Assembly in 1846 .
Darbytown and New Market Roads Confederate order of battle The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Darbytown and New Market Roads on October 7 , 1864 . The Union order of battle is listed separately . Army of Northern Virginia . First Corps . LTG James Longstreet Fourth Corps . LTG Richard H . Anderson Cavalry Corps . LTG Wade Hampton
Africa Squadron The Africa Squadron was a unit of the United States Navy that operated from 1819 to 1861 to suppress the slave trade along the coast of West Africa . However , the term was often ascribed to Anti - Slavery operations during the period leading up to the Civil War . The squadron was an outgrowth of the 1819 treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom that was an early step in stopping the trade , and further defined by the Webster - Ashburton Treaty of 1842 . Although technically coordinated with a British West Africa Squadron based in Sierra Leone , in practice the American contingent worked on its own . The squadron also lacked support from the Navy itself : Secretary of the Navy Abel Parker Upshur ( 1790 – 1844 ) was a Southerner and an extreme supporter of States rights and slavery , and assigned only a handful of ships mounting a total of 80 guns between them . Matthew Perry was the first commander of the squadron , and based himself in Cape Verde . The squadron was generally ineffective , since the ships were too few , and since much of the trading activity had shifted to the Niger River delta area ( present - day Nigeria ) , which was not being covered . In the two years of Perry ' s leadership , only one slaver was reported to be captured , and that ship was later acquitted by a New Orleans court . In the 16 years of squadron operation , only the crew of 19 slave ship s went to trial . These slavers were acquitted or only lightly fined . Other commanders , however , were more successful . African Slave Trade Patrol . The Africa Squadron ' s cruising area eventually ranged from Cape Frio to the south ( about 18 degrees south latitude ) , to Madeira in the north . However , the squadron ' s supply depot was in Cape Verde Island , approximately 2500 miles from the northern - most centers of the slave trade in the Bight of Biafra and southward . The Navy department did not move the depot location until 1859 , when it was set up at St . Paul de Luanda , in present - day Angola , about 8 degrees south latitude . At the same time the department put Madeira out of bounds for the squadron . The majority of the squadron ' s cruising in its first decade was along the coast of Western Africa , with particular attention to Liberian interests . By the 1850s much of the slave trade in this area had been eliminated by the British , based in their colony at Sierra Leone , as well as the Liberians . Vessels seized by other squadrons . Home Squadron : Off Cuba . Source : Canney , D . L . , " Africa Squadron " , Potomac Books , 2006 , pp . 233 – 234
Generał Generał ( pronounced ) , is the generic Polish language term for the rank of General . In narrow sense it is used to denote the rank of a Four - star general introduced on August 15 , 2002 ( formerly " generał armii " - general of the army ) . It is currently the highest military rank of the Polish Army , with the rank of Marshal of Poland currently being unused . The symbols of the rank are the " wężyk generalski " ( pronounced ) , or " general ' s wavy line " , and four stars , featured both on the rogatywka , sleeves of the uniform and above the breast pocket of a field uniform . In Polish military traditions the highest rank was always the rank of Marshal of Poland , with three General ' s grades below . However , the system differed significantly from other systems of rank insignia used in both armies of the Warsaw Pact and the NATO . Because of lack of the rank of four - star general , the Polish ranks were usually a grade higher than their name suggested . Thus the rank of Generał brygady was an equivalent of Major General rather than Brigadier General as the name suggested . In 1954 , during the integration of the Polish Army with the structures of the Warsaw Pact ( and , more precisely , of the Red Army ) , a new rank of " generał armii " ( General of an Army ) was introduced , as a direct copy of the Soviet rank of " Генерал армии " . However , after the death of Joseph Stalin and the end of Stalinism in Poland , the general officers rank structure returned to the pre - war pattern . In 1981 Gen . Wojciech Jaruzelski ( being at this time the 1st Secretary of the Polish United Workers ' Party , the Prime Minister and the Minister of the National Defense ) introduced again the rank of general of the army . As the only person to hold the newly introduced rank , he was thought of as an " ersatz - Marshal " , as he could not promote himself to the rank of Marshal of Poland after the death of Marian Spychalski . In 1995 the rank was yet again abolished and the only people to still hold it are Jaruzelski and Gen . Florian Siwicki , both retired . However , with Poland ' s entry into the structures of NATO a need arose to unify the Polish rank system with that of English speaking countries ( and more precisely , the USA ) . Hence the rank of a " Generał " was introduced . The rank of Marshal of Poland remains as the " war time " rank , given to the chief of general staff in case of war or a successful military commander after a victorious campaign .
Timothy F . Ghormley Major General Timothy F . Ghormley is an American officer in the United States Marine Corps who served in the Vietnam War , as Inspector General of the Marine Corps , as commander of the Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa and as the Chief of Staff for US Central Command . Major General Ghormley retired from the military in 2008 . Military career . Ghormley joined the Marine Corps in April 1967 and served in California with the 1st Force Troops , 1st Redeye Platoon at Marine Corps Base , Twentynine Palms . He was transferred to Vietnam in 1969 to serve with the 2nd Battalion of the 4th Marine Regiment . After having been discharged from active service in 1970 , Ghormley joined the Platoon Leaders Course Program and received a bachelors degree from university as well as a commission to Second Lieutenant in 1973 . Ghormley received flight training and was assigned to Lake Forest , California and the USS " Midway " until he was recalled for a year amphibious training in June 1980 . Returning to Lake Forest in 1981 , Ghormley spent the next four years there , before attending the Marine Corps Command & Staff College in 1985 , and transferring across to F / A - 18 Hornet s in 1986 . 1988 saw Ghormley serving as executive officer to a number of squadrons across California until attending the Naval War College , in Newport , Rhode Island in 1991 . In 1992 Ghormley was transferred to Hawaii to take command of another squadron , and then in 1994 became duty officer for USCINCPAC . From July 1996 until 1998 Ghormley held a series of commands before being promoted to Brigadier General in 1999 , taking a new position as Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower and Reserve Affairs on June 14 , 1999 . On September 13 , 1999 Ghormley took the role of Inspector General of the Marine Corps in Washington DC . On July 1 , 2001 , Ghormley took command of the Marine Expeditionary Brigade based in Okinawa in Japan , as well as the Expeditionary Strike Group of the U . S . Seventh Fleet . In 2003 he became the Director of Manpower Plans & Policy Division of the Marine Corps , and between May 17 , 2005 and February 2006 , Ghormley commanded the Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa . Ghormley arrived at US Central Command on July 12 , 2006 and became the Chief of Staff on October 27 , 2006 . As of September 14 , 1999 Ghormley had logged 4300 hours of flight time , with 2000 of these in the F / RF - 4B Phantom , 1700 hours in the F / A - 18 Hornet and 300 hours in other aircraft .
Alice Chisholm Dame Alice Isabel Chisholm DBE ( née Morphy ; 3 July 1856 – 30 May 1954 ) , known familiarly as " Mother Chisholm " , was an Australian woman who provided canteen services for soldiers in Egypt and Palestine during World War I . Early life . She was born at Reevesdale near Goulburn , New South Wales to Major Richard John Morphy , pastoralist of Grena Mummell , Goulburn , and his wife Mary Emma , née Styles . She was raised by maternal grandparents , after her mother died of measles , because her father was away serving in the Indian Army . She was educated at home . In 1877 , she married pastoralist William Alexander Chisholm , a widower ( died 1902 ) ; the couple had three sons and two daughters , two of whom predeceased their mother . First World War . During the First World War her son Bertram was wounded at Gallipoli . She travelled to Egypt to be closer to him ; when she arrived she noticed the lack of facilities for the troops and established a canteen in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis largely at her own expense . She opened a second canteen in Egypt at Port Said , and a third in Kantara for troops fighting near the Suez Canal with two other Australasian women . The Kantara canteen expanded to include dormitories and dining - rooms and eventually had the capacity for handling thousands of men . Profits from the canteens were used to provide the troops with comforts for their journey home . Post - war . She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1918 and promoted to Dame Commander ( DBE ) in the 1920 civilian war honours . When she returned to Australia she continued working within the community . She helped found the Returned and Services League of Australia in Goulburn and she was active in the Country Women ' s Association and RSPCA . Death . Survived by two sons and a daughter , she died at her home at West Pennant Hills on 30 May 1954 , aged 97 years 11 months , and was buried in the Church of England cemetery at Kippilaw , near Goulburn . She was Australia ' s oldest dame , a record that was not broken until Dame Elisabeth Murdoch surpassed her age in January 2007 . Legacy . A street in the Canberra suburb of Cook is named in her honour . Upon her return to Australia she lived in a house called " Bolderwood " in the Sydney North West suburb of Pennant Hills . The house still stands today .
Hermann Fichter Hermann Emil Fichter ( March 30 , 1845 – August 5 , 1912 ) was an American soldier in the U . S . Army who served with the 3rd U . S . Cavalry during the Apache Wars . He was one of five men received the Medal of Honor for gallantry battling the Apache Indians in the Whetstone Mountains of Arizona on May 5 , 1871 . Biography . Hermann Emil Fichter was born in the Grand Duchy of Baden , Germany on March 30 , 1845 . He emigrated to the United States and enlisted in the U . S . Army in New York City , New York . He was assigned to frontier duty in the Arizona Territory with the 3rd U . S . Cavalry and took part in the Apache Wars . On May 5 , 1871 , Fichter was cited for " gallantry in action " while fighting the Apache in the Whetstone Mountains . He was one of five members of his regiment , including Sergeant John Mott , Private John Kilmartin , Private Daniel H . Miller and Private John P . Yount , to receive the Medal of Honor at the end of the year . After leaving the army , Fichter settled in Quincy , Illinois and died there on August 5 , 1912 , at the age of 67 . He was interred at Saint Boniface Cemetery . Medal of Honor citation . Rank and organization : Private , Company F , 3d U . S . Cavalry . Place and date : At Whetstone Mountains , Ariz . , 5 May 1871 . Entered service at : - - - - - - . Birth : Germany . Date of issue : 13 November 1871 . Citation : Gallantry in action .
USS LST - 850 USS " LST - 850 was an built for the United States Navy during World War II . Late in her career , she was renamed Juniata County " ( LST - 850 ) — after Juniata County , Pennsylvania , the only U . S . Naval vessel to bear the name — but never saw active service under that name . Originally laid down as LST - 850 by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company of Seneca , Illinois 15 August 1944 ; launched 3 November 1944 ; sponsored by Mrs . Mildred Margaret Tegge Honig ; and commissioned at New Orleans , Louisiana 27 November 1944 with Lieutenant Perry B . Hazard in command . After shakedown off the coast of Florida , LST - 850 loaded military cargo at Gulfport , Mississippi and departed New Orleans for the Pacific 31 December . Steaming via the Panama Canal and San Diego , she reached Pearl Harbor 1 February 1945 . On 20 February she sailed with five other landing ships for the Solomons , arriving Guadalcanal 7 March . After loading a cargo of LVTs , she departed 19 March , touched at Eniwetok 25 March , and reached Guam the 31st . There she unloaded her cargo before steaming to Saipan 3 April to prepare to support operations at Okinawa . Between 12 April and 14 April , LST - 850 embarked Seabees and loaded construction and combat equipment ; then she departed 20 April for that strategic island , which lay at the gateway to the heart of the Japanese Empire . Arriving 27 April , she discharged troops and cargo despite intermittent enemy air attacks . From 7 May to 13 May she returned to Saipan where she embarked 371 officers and men of the 2nd Marine Division and loaded a cargo of LTVs . Sailing 24 May , she arrived Okinawa 30 May . On 3 June , and again on 9 June , she carried these veterans of the Pacific fighting for amphibious assaults against Iheya Shima and Aguni Shima . Departing in convoy 18 June , she reached Saipan the 24th ; and , after embarking Seabees at Guam , she returned to Okinawa 28 July . Sailing once more for the Marianas 8 August , she arrived Saipan 14 August as Japan accepted Allied peace terms and agreed to surrender . Assigned to transport occupation forces to Japan , LST - 850 steamed via Leyte to Manila Bay , Luzon , where she embarked Army troops and departed in convoy for Japan . She entered Tokyo Bay 11 September and discharged her troops . Departing Tokyo early in October , during the next month she returned to Luzon , embarked additional troops , and carried them to Yokohama where she arrived 4 November . After supporting occupation landings along the coast of Honshū , she sailed in mid - November for the United States . She sailed via Saipan and Pearl Harbor and arrived Astoria , Oregon 30 December . LST - 850 operated out of Astoria during the next 10 months and then was placed in commission , in reserve 17 May 1946 . She transferred to Portland in October , decommissioned 18 January 1947 , and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet . While berthed in the Columbia River , she was named USS " Juniata County " ( LST - 850 ) 1 July 1955 . She was recommended for use as a target to destruction 20 October 1958 . Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register 1 November 1958 .
Émile Paul Amable Guépratte Émile Paul Aimable Guépratte ( 30 August 1856 – 21 November 1939 ) was a French admiral . Guépratte was born in Granville to a family of naval officers . He studied at the " Lycée impérial " in Brest from 1868 , and joined the École Navale on 1 October 1871 . He was made an officer on 5 October 1874 , and promoted to " Enseigne de vaisseau " on 1 December 1877 . He served in Tunisia aboard the " Marengo " . He studied torpedo operations and served on the " Amiral Duperré " as a torpedo expert before receiving his first command in 1889 . In 1891 , he was second officer of the " Forfait " . He went on to command the gunboat " Caronade " in Indochina , the anti - submarine defences of Brest , a destroyer and the cruiser " Foudre " , rising in rank to " capitaine de vaisseau " . In 1905 , Guépratte took command of the " Jeanne d ' Arc " . In 1909 , he commanded the " Edgar Quinet " , ferrying President Armand Fallières . Guépratte was promoted to contre - amiral on 2 September 1912 . At the outbreak of the First World War , he led a squadron of old battleships in the Mediterranean . He was sent to the Dardanelles to back the British Mediterranean Fleet of Admiral Sackville Carden . On the 3 November 1914 , the " Suffren " , " Vérité " , " Indomitable " and " Indefatigable " started shelling the forts defending the strait , initiating the Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign . The main attack took place on 18 March , Guépratte leading the forwards squadron . The fleet was taken into a well - prepared minefield , under fire from coastal artillery . The " Irresistible " , " Ocean " and " Bouvet " were sunk ; the French flagship " Suffren " was seriously damaged , as well as the " Gaulois " . Nevertheless , Admiral John de Robeck lauded the spirit of the French line . Guépratte took part in the naval part of the later joint operation with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force , deploring the lack of first - class French units in the theater . He was eventually promoted to vice - admiral on 10 October 1915 , allegedly to bring him away from combat operations , where he was deemed impetuous , to a safer area of activity . Guépratte was retired on 30 August 1918 and took up a career as a politician . He was elected to the National Assembly of France on 16 November 1919 on a left - wing list . He specialised in parliamentary affairs of the Navy . He retired from political life in 1924 . He died in Brest in 1939 . Honours . Guépratte ' s tomb is in Les Invalides , where French military heroes are buried .
Mammadrafi Mammadov Mammadrafi Mammadov Ismayil oglu ( ) was Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan from September 2 , 1993 until February 6 , 1995 . Mammadov served as minister during the period of fierce fighting on Karabakh front . Term in office . Lieutenant General Mammadov was deputy chief commander of Leningrad Military District before he was invited to lead the Ministry of Defense in Azerbaijan . On September 2 , 1993 acting President Heydar Aliyev appointed Mammadov the Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan . He was appointed to the post at then powerful colonel Suret Huseynov ' s request when Aliyev assume power in June 1993 and mainly because of his close ties to Russian military officials , including the Russian Defense Minister , Pavel Grachev hoping closer military ties with Russia would benefit Azerbaijan . However , the connections yielded the opposite . During his official visit to Russia in 1994 , Mammadrafi Mammadov agreed to station two regiments of Russian armed forces in Azerbaijan which was announced by Grachev during the joint press conference . Since the motion was not previously communicated to and approved by President Aliyev , the claims were immediately refuted by outraged Aliyev himself . Within the next few months , Grachev as well as Anatoly Kornukov travelled to Azerbaijan to persuade Azerbaijani authorities to allow Russian military presence in Azerbaijan but were denied the requests . However , Mammadov is also credited for notifying Baku authorities of acts of sabotage in Azerbaijan . While working in Moscow , Mammadrafi Mammadov passed confidential information about planned helicopter attack of Russian forces on the dissolved Soviet military base in Ganja which was to transfer considerable amount of ammunition and equipment to Azerbaijan as per agreement between Russian and Azerbaijani authorities . The warehouses were immediately emptied and equipment was saved . Throughout Mammadov ' s term in office , most of Azerbaijani territories were not recaptured and remained under Armenian military control . Mammadov was one of the co - signers of Bishkek ceasefire agreement . After the war , he also tried to arrange a 3 , 500 German peacekeeping force on Karabakh frontlines under auspices of the Organization for Security and Co - operation in Europe . On February 6 , 1995 Aliyev removed Mammadov from his post replacing him by Colonel General Safar Abiyev .