Clark H. Lewis, President         Art & Carol Bergeron, Editors
P. O. Box 1122                    3901 Paces Ferry Road      
Richmond, VA 23218                 Chester, VA 23831-1239   

July 2002 PROGRAM

Cramer Gallimore

"The Hunley Photography"

8:00 p.m., Tuesday, July 9, 2002, at the
Boulevard United Methodist Church, 321 N. Boulevard,
Richmond, VA (corner of Boulevard and Stuart Ave.)

Cramer Gallimore is a commercial photographer  working  from
his  studio in Raleigh, North Carolina.  His company, Cramer
Gallimore Photography Studio provides  advertising,  aerial,
industrial,  and  digital  photography to clients worldwide,
which include UPS, PepsiCo, and Apple  Computer,  Inc.   His
editorial   clients   include   National  Geographic  books,
Newsweek, and U.   S.   News  and  World  Report.   Born  in
Thomasville,  North  Carolina,  he  holds  an  AAS degree in
Photography.   He  began   his   career   as   a   newspaper
photographer  for  the Fayetteville Observer-Times, where he
won numerous state and national awards.  Gallimore served as
NPPA Region Six Director and president of the North Carolina
Press Photographers Association.                            

Gallimore still finds time to photograph projects  involving
his personal interests that are journalistic in nature using
"bleeding edge" technologies to open doors.  He  lives  with
his  wife, Mary, and two dogs but spends most of his time at
the Raleigh-Durham airport in a light plane  or  driving  on
I-95.                                                       

In  August  2000,  Gallimore  photographed  from the air the
recovery of the H.  L.  Hunley as it  was  raised  from  the
ocean  floor  137 years after its sinking.  Later, he became
the  principal  photographer   providing   documentary   and
scientific   photography   during   the  excavation  of  the
submarine.   Gallimore  will  share  with  us  some  of  the
photographs  he  took  during  the raising of the Hunley and
during the  work  investigating  this  priceless  Civil  War
artifact.                                                   



Review of the June Program


William  A.   Young,  Jr.,  portrayed  the  Reverend  George
Williamson Finley as he was in 1902 and looked back upon his
experiences at the Battle of Gettysburg as a 1st  Lieutenant
in Company K, 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment.  On the night
of July 1, 1863, Finley and his regiment, which belonged  to
Brigadier  General  Richard  B.   Garnett's brigade of Major
General George E.  Pickett's Division, spent  the  night  in
camp  near  Chambersburg.   The  men  received  three  days'
rations-the sure that they were about  to  go  into  battle.
Getting  up  at  2 a.  m., they marched through Cashtown and
stopped at Marsh Creek.  Finley was  unable  to  sleep.   He
read  the  New  Testament his wife had given him.  2 Timothy
1:12 made him feel calm, and he finally slept.              

The 56th Virginia was up at  3 a. m.  on July 3  and  had  a
dusty  march to the Spangler farm, where they stopped in his
wheat field.   About  11  o'clock,  the  soldiers  witnessed
General  Robert  E.  Lee hold a council of war nearby.  This
meeting resulted in the decision to have Pickett's  Division
lead the assault that day.  While waiting, the men ate green
apples and then skirmished with the  apple  cores.   Colonel
William Dabney Stuart ordered them to stop and fall in. They
marched to the reverse slope of Seminary Ridge.  There  they
lay down in the long grass.  Major James Dearing's artillery
battalion was positioned in front of them.  The  bombardment
of  Cemetery  Ridge  began  at  1 p. m.  It was the greatest
artillery duel Finley had ever seen.                        

Pickett rode out and ordered the men to their feet. Drummers
beat  the  long  roll,  and the color bearers unfurled their
flags.   Alexander  L.   P.   Williams  carried   the   56th
Virginia's  banner.   Garnett's  Brigade took up position on
the left of the division.   Garnett  and  Brigadier  General
Lewis  Armistead talked of the desperate nature of what they
were about to do.  Colonel Stuart urged Garnett not to  make
the charge because an injury made it necessary for him to go
forward on horseback.  The general mentioned a  presentiment
of death.                                                   

Finally the order to advance was given.  The regiment passed
through Dearing's guns and saw the basin through which  they
would have to advance.  Finley noticed the difference in the
way the two sides  were  dressed-finely  clad  Federals  and
ragged  Confederates.  Colonel Stuart directed his men to go
toward a copse of trees at an angle in the stone wall. Union
rifle  and  artillery  fire  began to knock men down shortly
after the charge began.  Colonel Stuart was hit in the  side
and  mortally  wounded.   Finley  recalled hearing Garnett's
voice telling the men to be steady.  A post and  rail  fence
at  the  Emmitsburg Pike slowed the charge.  About 100 yards
from the wall, the  men  finally  opened  fire.   Then  they
charged  with  a Rebel yell.  Finley felt the blast from the
last rounds fired by Cushing's  Union  guns.   Garnett  fell
dead   from  a  rifle  volley  fired  by  men  of  the  72nd
Pennsylvania Infantry of the Philadelphia Brigade. Armistead
crossed  the  stone  wall  next  to  the  colors of the 56th
Virginia and then was killed.                               

Finley  also  crossed  the  wall  and   found   himself   in
hand-to-hand  combat.  He and the other Virginians were soon
surrounded.  Finley ordered his command to  cease  fire  and
surrender.   After  his  capture,  he spent two years in six
different Union prisons.  He was finally  released  in  July
1865.    Finley   attended  Union  Theological  Seminary  at
Hampden-Sydney  College  for  two   years   and   became   a
Presbyterian  minister.   He  was  assigned  to the Tinkling
Springs Church.  Finley and his wife taught  their  fourteen
children  the  words  to  his favorite marching song-"Goober
Peas."                                                      

Young's presentation was based upon an interview that Finley
gave  the  Buffalo  Evening  News  in  1894.  That paper had
published  an  account  of   Gettysburg   from   the   Union
perspective  and  decided  to  do  a  second  issue from the
Confederate viewpoint.                                      



 Announcements 

Museum of the Confederacy Seeks Volunteers

The Museum of the Confederacy  will  hold  its  annual  fund
raising  event weekend, Celebrate South, on April 4-6, 2003.
Each year the event recognizes a different  southern  state,
and  Florida will be the theme for 2003.  Guests from around
the country will enjoy  educational  events,  workshops,  an
auction,  and  the annual Civil War-themed ball, which comes
complete with period costumes and dancing.   Information  on
this  event  will  be  posted  as  it  become  available  at
www.moc.org.  Celebrate South is planned by a  committee  of
dedicated  and  interested  volunteers.   Several  committee
positions are currently open.  Those interested  in  finding
out  more  about  participating on the committee may contact
Larisa Morano at (804) 649-1861, ext. 44.                   


Pamplin Historical Park Programs

Pamplin  Historical  Park  near  Petersburg  will  hold  two
special  programs  this month.  On July 13-14, the park will
host "Old Time Fair."  This  weekend  will  feature  vintage
baseball  games  from  the mid-1800s, family activities, and
games for the kids.  A focus weekend will be  held  on  July
27-28,  "Summer  Garden  Days  and  Summer  Food Ways." This
program will focus on heirloom variety  vegetables  and  the
nineteenth  century kitchen garden at both the Big House and
the Field Quarter, and it will deal with how the  vegetables
were  used  in  cooking  specific  to  the season.  For more
information, call Pamplin Historical Park at (804) 861-2408.


New Online Newsletter Feature

The  online  edition  of  our  newsletter  now  features  an
articles section.  They are under the link:                 

RCWRT Members' & Speakers' Articles & Speeches

on our home page.  Dr.  Edward Smith  has  sent  an  article
that  is  an  800  line copy of his 1992 speech.  The latest
article, by our November speaker, is just a link to  another
web  site.   Members  should  submit  to  Gary  Cowardin any
published articles and permission to reproduce them  on  the
web  site.   Gary will put them in the appropriate location.
He will need to  receive  the  articles  in  e-mail  format,
attachment,  FAX, or paper with the preference in that order
(e-mail preferred).  We can also link to another web site if
necessary.   Each  article  will  need  to  be  approved  as
submitted  to  avoid  any  negative  situations   (language,
continent, etc.).                                           


Capitol Hill Civil War Round Table

The Capitol Hill Civil  War  Round  Table  has  invited  our
members  to  attend  their  meetings and field trips.  Their
club meets the first Monday of  each  month  from  September
through  June.   The  meetings  are  held  in  the Longworth
Building on Capitol Hill and begin with refreshments at 6 p.
m.   In  September,  they  will  sponsor  a  field  trip  to
Petersburg with Ed Bearss as guide.  For  more  information,
contact  Ms.   Rande  Young,  Treasurer,  P.  O.  Box 10072,
Arlington, VA 22210, or phone (703)  358-9214.   Her  e-mail
address is ry5058@starpower.net                             


RCWRT Monthly Speakers for 2002


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September 20 for October; October 18 for November;          
and November 22 for December                                


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