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Oscar the Raccoon .jpg) Oscar the Raccoon was a big hit, especially with the younger spectators, as he sat in the cooking pot, twitching his tail, at the encampment of the Southern Telegraph Company at the 2007 Brooksville Raid Civil War reeanacmtnt. |
Heliograph Constructed by Member Don Andrus .jpg) MTC Florida Chapter President Rob Feeney and a young Confederate soldier look over the Heliograph and its telegraph circuit adaptor at the Battle of Townsend's Plantation Civil War reenactment at Mt. Dora, FL, February 2006. This device, constructed by Florida Chapter Member Don Andrus, is capable of sending a Morse signal up to 40 miles, using the sun as a light source. The heliograph was first developed by the British and was used extensively by the U. S. Army in the American Southwest for 20 years after the Civil War. |
Brooksville Raid Civil War Reenactment, 2006. .jpg) Southern Telegraph Company Field Office at the Brooksville Raid Civil War Reenactment, January 2006. Grand Chapter member Chris Hausler from Rochester, NY was pressed into service when he visited the "Raid." He is shown standing behind the table under the tent in a Confederate uniform Florida Chapter President Rob Feeney (bowler hat) is in the background, along with Chapter member John Feeney, partially hidden. Chapter member Don Andrus took this photo. The reenactment was a three day event. |
Old Trilby Depot Telegraph Office .jpg) Member L. A. Bailey sits at the telegraph desk in the partially restored telegraph office in the old Trilby, FL Depot, now located on the grounds of the Dade City, FL Pioneer Musuem. November 2005 |
Samuel F. B. Morse descendent .jpg) Henry Blackford, of Naples, FL, great-great-great-grandson of Samuel F. B. Morse, poses at a telegraph key during Collier County's Old Florida Days Festival, November 2004. Henry is not a telegrapher and is not a member of the Morse Telegraph Club, but is an avid Civil War reenactor. |
.jpg) Young visitor checking out Don Andrus' demonstration set-up at Plant City Pioneer Days demonstration, November 2004. |
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