User:Grayghost01/image gallery

Flags

A few times I've been in need of a flag, and most of these I created graphically from scratch. Seeing the flags of the Confederacy is important on Wiki, since most people are under the strange impression that the CS Navy Jack was the "flag" of the Confederate States of America, when it never was.

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  Army of Kentucky Battle Flag
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  Polks Corps Battle Flag
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  ANV: 37th Virginia Infantry Battle Flag
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  JEB Stuart's Battle Flag
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  City of Winchester Flag: In case anyone couldn't tell, the folks in Winchester way-back-when decided to make a permanent everlasting statement in their flag. Can you guess what the message is?
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  Aha. Can't accuse me of a POV on that one, eh! To explain this for all you southern boys, the Yanks wanted the whole side of their flag matched against just the canton of the Stainless Banner. They didn't quite grasp what the parts of a flag are, which may explain why they often think the CS Navy Jack is the CSA national ensign.

Template Graphics

These are graphics to go with various navigation bars I've created. Since I've created them, they are therefore representing a "POV", and the Neo-Yanks will soon be by to burn them, as they did most of Southern history. Why should these receive any better treatment than a county courthouse?

• The Venerable Gray Ghost, Colonel Mosby
  The Venerable Gray Ghost, Colonel Mosby
• Beloved of the Valley, Brigadier General Turner Ashby
  Beloved of the Valley, Brigadier General Turner Ashby
• Lord of Battle, brother in Christ, Lieutenant General Stonewall Jackson
  Lord of Battle, brother in Christ, Lieutenant General Stonewall Jackson
• Death from the Sea: Admiral Semmes' Ghost Ship
  Death from the Sea: Admiral Semmes' Ghost Ship

Premiere Artists Donating to Wiki

I've personally contacted the artists and received free publication permission for these:

• John Paul Strain's: Romney Expedition
  John Paul Strain's: Romney Expedition

Personal Photos

Virginia Geography

Getting great shots of historical or geographical locations in Virginia is a cinch. You can stop the car practically anywhere and take pictures of more history than you'll know what to do with.

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  Ashby's Gap on US Route 50 through which Brother Jackson marched his army to Glory at First Manassas
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  Goose Creek Bridge: Where JEB Stuart screened the Army of Freedom, otherwise known as the Army of Northern Virginia

Winchester, Virginia

I should have more of the hometown. Maybe one day.

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  Brother Jackson's HQ in Winchester. This house belonged to Mary Tyler Moore's Confederate ancestor.
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  The White Hall Grocery Store has a fine selection of snuffs, pork rinds and moon pies
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  The White Hall United Methodist Church, saved by God from Yankee fire

Defense of Virginia (1861-1865)

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  This is a photo I took at the battlefield of Hawe's Shop. This is almost the exact location where my GGG-grandfather in the 4th South Carolina Cavalry pulled out an 1853 model Enfield rifle and aiming eastward as in this photo, began showing Custer's cavalry charge what a good ole' Southern boy can shoot at 800 yards.

Photos of the famous "MYTH" of 1861

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  The Great Train Raid of 1861 sign at the Strasburg, Virginia historic train depot where between 14 and 19 locomotives were brought to over the Valley Pike from Martinsburg, West Virginia and Winchester, Virginia
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  Great Train Raid sign at Point of Rocks, where the "MYTH" began
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  The Point of Rocks signal tower (2008), location of Colonel Imboden's "MYTH"ical cavalry raid to cut the B&O rail line
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  Historic Martinsburg railyard (2008) where 56 locomotives and trains were not [NOT!] burned by Stonewall Jackson
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  Photo of the "MYTH" wagoneer Mr. Keeler, still standing in 2008, whom Va Tech Faculty thinks was a fairy tale, along with the entire Great Train Raid of 1861
• Winans 0-8-0 camel locomotive Engine No. 199 "MYTH"ically captured by Jackson's forces, and "never" transported to Staunton, Virginia, where an entire town of people only "imagined" seeing a locomotive come down the street pulled by horses
  Winans 0-8-0 camel locomotive Engine No. 199 "MYTH"ically captured by Jackson's forces, and "never" transported to Staunton, Virginia, where an entire town of people only "imagined" seeing a locomotive come down the street pulled by horses
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  Staunton, Virginia Railroad Station, final "Twilight Zone" destination of one or more locomotives taken further south to avoid Manassas Gap Railroad risks
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  Joseph Crawn house, "MYTH"ical eyewitness to locomotives and boxcars being carted to Staunton, Virginia in 1861
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  Civil War Trails, participating in perpetuating the "MYTH" has a sign at Strasburg

News Clippings

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  from my buddy at http://sonofthesouth.net Harpers Weekly, 7 Sep 1861, MARKET-PLACE AT WINCHESTER, RENDEZVOUS OF THE REBEL MILITIA OF THE VALLEY OF THE SHENANDOAH; Oops. The Yankee papers are only 5 months behind on the news, since that all happened in April.
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  Leslie's, 1862, This is a news clipping showing how MG Banks and the U.S. Army were always helpful to the Southern cause by delivering tons of supplies, before running like scared chickens from Stonewall Jackson's army.
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  July 20, 1861, p.455; Harper's Weekly News Illustration: Camel back locomotive which had been left on the north end of the Winchester & Potomac Railroad. This locomotive was tossed in the river in June of 1861, "MYTH"ically during the Great Train Raid of 1861. The Northern newspaper reporter intentionally created this fake woodcut, to abet a story that John D. Imboden "made up" years later.
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  "Locomotives Dismantled By the Rebels at Martinsburg, Virginia" in August 1861 Harpers Weekly, where yet another Northern reporter was drawing fictional pictures of the Great Train Raid of 1861 which "never happened".
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  "HARPER'S FERRY, AS EVACUATED BY THE CONFEDERATE TROOPS", p.428, July 6, 1861
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  "DESTRUCTION OF THE RAILROAD BRIDGE OVER THE POTOMAC, AT HARPER'S FERRY, BY THE REBELS, JUNE 15, 1861", p.429, July 6, 1861
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  "DESTRUCTION OF RAILWAY CARS AT HARPER'S FERRY BY THE MISSISSIPPIANS", p.455, July 20, 1861

Historical Scans and Photos

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  Norris 4x4x0 locomotive suspension such as used on the Ancient, Virginia and Potomac locomotives of the Winchester and Potomac Railroad
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  Centreville Military Railroad trestle bridge on Bull Run, destroyed on March 11, 1862. For a long time, historians didn't know what this bridge was. See the T-rail mounted on the bridge?

Maps

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  I created this map with 2-foot LIDAR showing the forts occupied by the tyrant MG Milroy in 1863 in Winchester, Virginia. In one single night, an entire Division of the U.S. Army was wiped from the face of the earth by MajGen Jubal Early.
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  Overturned locomotive incident at North River near Mount Crawford, Virginia, where the "MYTH"ical witness fabricated detailed maps of the "MYTH"ical locomotive which flipped on its side

Life at sea

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  BB-17 USS Rhode Island: Bill the Goat