December 26, 2009 - "Along The Embrasures"

My photos of Dry Tortugas National Park were taken 8 years ago with my first digital point and shoot camera. Thanks to current post processing technology I have been able to enhance these images from photos approximately 400K jpg size.

Thanks for your suggestions to create some books of some of my post series. I recently added Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks to my published travel oriented books. You have seen quite a few of the photos in my daily post, but the entire book is available for preview at
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/975091
Covers and links to my other books are at
http://dakotacowboy.smugmug.com/Photography/Published-books/7482816_b2oDK/1/748788471_2k4fU

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Fort Jefferson's peak military population was 1,729. In addition, a number of officers brought their families, and a limited number of enlisted personnel brought wives who served as laundresses (typically four per company). There were also lighthouse keepers and their families, cooks, a civilian doctor and his family, and others. In all, there were close to 2,000 people at Fort Jefferson during its peak years. ....................

The fort remained in Federal hands throughout the Civil War. With the end of hostilities in 1865, the fort's population declined to 1,013, consisting of 486 soldiers or civilians and 527 prisoners. The great majority of prisoners at Fort Jefferson were Army privates whose most common transgression was desertion while most civilian prisoners transgressed by robbery. However, in July 1865 four special civilian prisoners arrived. These were Dr. Samuel Mudd, Edmund Spangler, Samuel Arnold, and Michael O'Laughlen, who had been convicted of conspiracy in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Construction of Fort Jefferson was still under way when Dr. Mudd and his fellow prisoners arrived, and continued throughout the time they were imprisoned there and for several years thereafter, but was never completely finished. Mudd provided much-praised medical care during a yellow fever epidemic at the fort in 1867, and was eventually pardoned by President Andrew Johnson and released. By 1888, the military usefulness of Fort Jefferson had waned, and the cost of maintaining the fort due to the effects of frequent hurricanes and the corrosive and debilitating tropical climate could no longer be justified. In 1888, the Army turned the fort over to the Marine Hospital Service to be operated as a quarantine station."

December 26, 2009 - "Along The Embrasures"

My photos of Dry Tortugas National Park were taken 8 years ago with my first digital point and shoot camera. Thanks to current post processing technology I have been able to enhance these images from photos approximately 400K jpg size.

Thanks for your suggestions to create some books of some of my post series. I recently added Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks to my published travel oriented books. You have seen quite a few of the photos in my daily post, but the entire book is available for preview at
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/975091
Covers and links to my other books are at
http://dakotacowboy.smugmug.com/Photography/Published-books/7482816_b2oDK/1/748788471_2k4fU

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Fort Jefferson's peak military population was 1,729. In addition, a number of officers brought their families, and a limited number of enlisted personnel brought wives who served as laundresses (typically four per company). There were also lighthouse keepers and their families, cooks, a civilian doctor and his family, and others. In all, there were close to 2,000 people at Fort Jefferson during its peak years. ....................

The fort remained in Federal hands throughout the Civil War. With the end of hostilities in 1865, the fort's population declined to 1,013, consisting of 486 soldiers or civilians and 527 prisoners. The great majority of prisoners at Fort Jefferson were Army privates whose most common transgression was desertion while most civilian prisoners transgressed by robbery. However, in July 1865 four special civilian prisoners arrived. These were Dr. Samuel Mudd, Edmund Spangler, Samuel Arnold, and Michael O'Laughlen, who had been convicted of conspiracy in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Construction of Fort Jefferson was still under way when Dr. Mudd and his fellow prisoners arrived, and continued throughout the time they were imprisoned there and for several years thereafter, but was never completely finished. Mudd provided much-praised medical care during a yellow fever epidemic at the fort in 1867, and was eventually pardoned by President Andrew Johnson and released. By 1888, the military usefulness of Fort Jefferson had waned, and the cost of maintaining the fort due to the effects of frequent hurricanes and the corrosive and debilitating tropical climate could no longer be justified. In 1888, the Army turned the fort over to the Marine Hospital Service to be operated as a quarantine station."