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
Dedication Day Procession, 2008, American Civil War Memorial, Waterloo, NY
Portal – American Civil War Memorial
Regimental Cenotaph – American Civil War Memorial
Night Views – American Civil War Memorial (photos: Michelle Calabro)
Raising the 36 Star Flag – American Civil War Memorial (photos: Michelle Calabro)
Plaque on monument to the 126th New York in Ziegler’s Grove – Gettysburg Battlefield
Union sharpshooters kit displayed on Little Round Top – Gettysburg Battlefield
Grave of Waterloo resident 5th Sergeant Tyler J. Snyder – Company G, 126th Regiment – Gettysburg National Cemetery
Along Cemetery Ridge looking North – Gettysburg Battlefield
3rd NY Memorial and Gettysburg National Cemetery – Cemetery Hill – Site of Gettysburg Address
Part Two: Savages Station
Crucifixion, Pietro Perugino, 1493-96, Fresco – Church of Santa Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi, Florence, Italy
Cupola of the Duomo, Florence
Palazzo Vecchio, 1299, with half moon – Piazza della Signoria, Florence
Judith and Holofernes, Donatello, 1460 – Piazza della Signoria, Florence
The Gridley Home, West Main Street, Waterloo, NY (photo: Bill Holmes)
Colosseum, Roma
Savages Station, VA – Union field hospital after the battle – Photographed June 30, 1862, by James F. Gibson
Part Three: Cenotaph
Great blue heron, along the race next to the American Civil War Memorial (photo: Bill Holmes)
Graduation, Nassau Hall, Princeton University, 2012
Fort Delaware – View of Pea Patch Island and Delaware shoreline from rampart
Interior courtyard, Fort Delaware
Interior views, Fort Delaware
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
Confederate Monument Bronze Plaques listing Confederate prisoners who died while incarcerated at Fort Delaware
North-South Cenotaph – American Civil War Memorial