The Chain Rejoined
Subtitle: Or, the Bonds of Science and Mystery Amongst Family, Including Many Attempts to Recover Ties Across the Atlantic Ocean
Edition: first edition
Series: The Bachmann and Baughman Family Historical Series, vol. V
Publisher: Shenandoah History Publishers
Published: January 2005
Place of publication: Edinburg, Va.
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780917968228
Subjects: Genealogy; Reference
First sentence: A style of writing known for millions of years only by God, but which was read by humans for the first time only fifty years ago, can now spell out precisely where many of the Bachmanns and Baughmans originated.  For several branches of the Baughman family in America, and as well in the Alps of Europe where the Bachmann tree first took root, a single heritage of DNA runs through them all, spanning not only the borders of several Swiss cantons, but even an ocean.
Description: Chains link things together: families, gates, animals that may not have stayed together on their own if given a choice each new day.
	When a chain, once lost in the woods, lies rusting and buried beneath the leaves and worms, neither tested nor put to real work, may forget the hands that once wrapped around it, may disintegrate in time and return to mere minerals.
	If a chain falls out of the present tense, even if only lost to those who used it, then it will forfeit all the life and plans and intentions that it once had. 
	Only memory and appreciation can save it.  Bits of lost and buried chain, when recovered and joined again, can reach full circle.
	Thanks belong to your eyes for waking up these stories.  Until you, they had been forgotten once again.
Notes: Table of Contents

section I

	chapter i:  Linking the Chains of Inheritance .. page 2
	
	chapter ii:  Appreciation of Song & Drink .. page 28
	
	chapter iii:  The Roof Overhead .. page 42
	
	chapter iv:  A Gallery of Bachmann Drawings .. page 62 
	
	chapter v:  Science & Mystery .. page 72 

        chapter vi:  Wildlife in the New World .. page 92 	

        chapter vii:  Blood & Passion in America .. page 110	

        chapter viii:  The Road from Kentucky to Oklahoma Taken by Slaves .. page 152	

section II

	chapter ix:  From Father to Son .. page 170
	
	chapter x:  Postscripts of Song & Drink .. page 184
	
	chapter xi:  The New Roof .. page 202
	
	chapter xii:  Newer Science, Magic & Wildlife .. page 214

	chapter xiii:  Blood & Passion Continue to Flow .. page 226

	chapter xiv:  The Unending Road Taken by Slaves .. page 232

	chapter xv:  Father & Son, Sworn to Serve .. page 240
	
reference section

	Maps .. page 258

	Appendices A - F .. page 266

	Additions and Corrections to Earlier Research .. page 306

	Bibliography and A Guide to Footnoted Sources .. page 310

	Index .. page 324

illustrations

Handwrought Chain Links	frontis 
Walsie Naomi Baughman Ruble	iii
The Tree of Life	vii
Capital Letters from Medieval Switzerland	viii

chapter 1

Eve and Adam in Eden	2
The Oldest Cave Painting	5
The Oldest Written Language	7
The Archer of Stonehenge	8
Arrowhead & Gold Jewelry	9
Raising the Stones	10
Sacrifice of the Bull	10
A Coin from Cæsar	11
Wicker Man of Human Sacrifice	11
Metal Horns from Switzerland	12
The Oldest Observatory	13
Mithra Slaying the Bull	14
A Celtic Priestess	15
Armor of the Auxiliaries	16
Winterscape of Finstersee	18
A Map of Northern Switzerland	19
A Swiss Ambush of Austrians	20
Brother Klaus	22
Flag of the Pope’s Swiss Guard	24
Medieval View of the World	26
A Celtic Chain	27

	chapter 2
	
Song of a Swiss Mercenary	28
The Swiss Vintner	32
Fermenting and Stomping	33
A Primitive Distillery	35
Common Wormwood	36
A Swiss Cowbell	37
A Swiss Mercenaries’ Camp	39
A Pagan Festival to the Bull	41

	chapter 3

A Simple Swiss Roof	42
Burning Down Swiss Homes	43
Bronze Bull from the Alps	44
The Bath House of Zürich 	45
The Giessen Waterfall	48
Ruins of Wädenswil Castle	49
The Blacksmith’s Art	50
Squaring Off Logs	51
Ancient Folk Art Symbols	52
The Woodworker & His Tree	53
A Farmhouse in Canton Bern	54
Wishbones	55
The Woodwork Indoors	55
Der Siebenstern	56
Negotiating with Indians	57
Bachmann Tavern Floor Plan	58
The Bachmann Publick House	59
Jacob Bachmann’s signature	60
The Meeting House	61
The German Clay House	61

	   chapter 4

A Talent with Pen & Paper	62
Hans Bachmann	63
The Village Festival	64
The Yodel	65
The Public Humiliation	66
The Stockade	67
The Stubborn Conscience	68
Punished by the Wheel	69
The Marketplace	70
The Unknowable Hereafter	71

	     chapter 5

The Plague	72
The Four Humors	73
The Healing Baths	74
Gesner’s Crab	75
Paracelsus	76
Life & Health of Swiss Miners	77
Astronomy	78
A Knowledge of the Heavens	79
The Dance of Death	80
Bachmann’s Home in Finstersee	82
Four Burning Devils	85
The Devil as a Beast	88
A Chain Hook Like a Serpent	91

    chapter 6	

A Blackfeet Warrior	92
Carl Bodmer & Signature	93
Panorama of Cahokia	94 & 95
John Bachman	98
A Vulture	99
A Hare in Full Flight	100
A Contented Porcupine	101
The Common Deer	102
The Buffalo	103
The Fish of Lake Zürich	105
The Baughman Family Portrait	107
A Discouraged Pioneer 	108
Long Jakes in 1846	109

    chapter 7	

Negroes to be Sold	110
Enticement to Buy Servants	111
Mistletoe	116
Battle of Brandywine	119
Father of the Country	121
Massacre in Colonial Virginia	123
John Bachman’s Silhouette	126
A Slave’s Identity Tag	127
Darwin’s Tree of Evolution	128
Fort Sumter	129
Sherman’s Total War	131
The Cattle Drive	133
Baughman Cowboys	134
Horseflies	135
The Hunting Party	137
A U.S. Marshal’s Badge	138
“Bull Creek” Dave Walker	142
A Bald Knobber’s Hood	143
Vigilante Action	148
The Bible’s Family Tree	151

   chapter 8

The Walk to Freedom	152
The Abolitionists’ Question	153
U.S. Colored Troops Fight	157
Morgan Baughman, deacon	161
A Black Veteran	162
President Theodore Roosevelt	162
Editor Theodore Baughman	164
The Oklahoma Sun	164

	   chapter 9   
	
A Diagram of DNA	170
The Bachmann House at Breiten	178
Crick’s First Inspiration	183

	chapter 10

Excesses of the Tavern	184
The Arkansas Traveler	186
George Baughman’s Family	187
Li’l Abner	190 & 191
Phylloxera Bugs	196
Drinking and Driving	198
Richterswiler Wine	200

	   chapter 11

John Baughman’s Mansion	202
Henry Baughman	205
A Luxury Hotel in the Ozarks	206
Easton’s Revolutionary Flag	209
Bachmann Publick House 	210
Workings of a Mill	212 & 213
    
	chapter 12

Hunting for Elk	214
Bachman’s Sparrow	217
The Bachmann Family Cow	220
Bachman’s Warbler	221
Paracelsus Hospital	224
    
	chapter 13

The Lynching	226
Chains of Enslavement	231

        chapter 14
	
The Era of Reconstruction	232
A Klansman’s Knife	235

	  chapter 15

T. Frank Baughman of the F.B.I	240
F.B.I. Shield of 1908	241
U.E. Baughman, Secret Service	244
Secret Service Shield of 1890	245
Dhani Bachmann’s Oath	248
The Newest Swiss Guard	249
A Pottery Shard	254
The Pleiadian Symbols	255
The Tree of Life as Scherenschnitte   

	m   a   p   s

Finstersee	258
Ft. Baughman on the Greenbrier	259
Eastern Pennsylvania, ca. 1760	260
Easton & Northampton County	261
Central Kentucky, ca. 1880	262
Camp Nelson	263
Trails in the American West	264
The Battle of Tulsa	265

	appendices A - F

Klaus Wust’s Cross of Merit	280
The Time of the Runes	285
        
	additions and corrections

Milk Soup after the Battle	306
Blake’s Gates of Paradise	327