Savages Station is a work of fiction but the settings and major historical characters of the Civil War are real. Here are photographs related to the stories.

Part One: Memorial Day

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Dedication Day Procession, 2008, American Civil War Memorial, Waterloo, NY

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Portal – American Civil War Memorial

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Regimental Cenotaph – American Civil War Memorial

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Night Views – American Civil War Memorial (photos: Michelle Calabro)

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Raising the 36 Star Flag – American Civil War Memorial (photos: Michelle Calabro)

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Plaque on monument to the 126th New York in Ziegler’s Grove – Gettysburg Battlefield

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Union sharpshooters kit displayed on Little Round Top – Gettysburg Battlefield

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Grave of Waterloo resident 5th Sergeant Tyler J. Snyder – Company G, 126th Regiment – Gettysburg National Cemetery

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Along Cemetery Ridge looking North – Gettysburg Battlefield

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3rd NY Memorial and Gettysburg National Cemetery – Cemetery Hill – Site of Gettysburg Address


Part Two: Savages Station

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Crucifixion, Pietro Perugino, 1493-96, Fresco – Church of Santa Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi, Florence, Italy

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Cupola of the Duomo, Florence

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Palazzo Vecchio, 1299, with half moon – Piazza della Signoria, Florence

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Judith and Holofernes, Donatello, 1460 – Piazza della Signoria, Florence

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The Gridley Home, West Main Street, Waterloo, NY (photo: Bill Holmes)

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Colosseum, Roma

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Savages Station, VA – Union field hospital after the battle – Photographed June 30, 1862, by James F. Gibson


Part Three: Cenotaph

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Great blue heron, along the race next to the American Civil War Memorial (photo: Bill Holmes)

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Graduation, Nassau Hall, Princeton University, 2012

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Fort Delaware – View of Pea Patch Island and Delaware shoreline from rampart

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Interior courtyard, Fort Delaware

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Interior views, Fort Delaware

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Finn’s Point National Cemetery – Confederate Monument – 85-foot granite obelisk ~ 13 marble tombstones in foreground mark the resting place of German POW’s from WWII

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Confederate Monument Bronze Plaques listing Confederate prisoners who died while incarcerated at Fort Delaware

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North-South Cenotaph – American Civil War Memorial

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