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Found this print while digging on the LOC web archive. I have seen it before but did not know the copyright on it.
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Eric Stephenson
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Re: Baseball in Civil War image.
This is a great picture, I have a copy hanging up in my house. I especially like the soldier getting shaken down in the far right side of the picture. Anybody have additional info on the illustrator, Otto Boetticher?Jeremiah DeGennaro
Durham, NC
"We are under orders to march at a moments notice and hold ourselves of course responsible to all military orders, for what are we but dogs in the hands of our superiors."
- Pvt. Josiah K. Baxter, 140th Indiana Infantry, Nov. 21, 1864Comment
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Re: Baseball in Civil War image.
The artist in the 1860 census:
Otto Boeticher age 49, occupation-artist. Born in Prussia. Married to Augusta, age 40, born in Saxony. They had five children, the eldest son, Otto, was a tailor and age 21. They lived in North Bergen, Hudson, New Jersey. Based on the fact that only the youngest children, Helene (age 7) and Alfred (age 1) were born in New Jersey, I would say they were relatively new immigrants but I cannot prove it one way or the other. The youngest kids also have considerable age gap between them and their older siblings. For example, daughter Minna-21 is two decades older than Alfred. Only speculation there but that's a little something more about the artist.Sincerely,
Emmanuel Dabney
Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society
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"God hasten the day when war shall cease, when slavery shall be blotted from the face of the earth, and when, instead of destruction and desolation, peace, prosperity, liberty, and virtue shall rule the earth!"--John C. Brock, Commissary Sergeant, 43d United States Colored TroopsComment
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Re: Baseball in Civil War image.
Otto entered the country in the early 1850's, and did a print on the 7th NY in 1851. I do not know where the Act. Major came from but I will dig a little more tonight. It says taken from nature, so he may have been P.O.W. at the time.
Eric Stephenson
[URL="http://www.military-historians.org/"]The Company of Military Historians[/URL]
[URL="http://lodge245.doylestownmasons.org/"]Doylestown Masonic Lodge No. 245 Free and Accepted Masons[/URL]
"Captain Dike is in the hands of some brother Masons, and to the Order he owes his life." OR s.I v.IIComment
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Otto Boetticher was a member of the 68th Regiment, New York Infantry. The gap in children can be explained by his service in the Prussian army, and his immigration.Eric Stephenson
[URL="http://www.military-historians.org/"]The Company of Military Historians[/URL]
[URL="http://lodge245.doylestownmasons.org/"]Doylestown Masonic Lodge No. 245 Free and Accepted Masons[/URL]
"Captain Dike is in the hands of some brother Masons, and to the Order he owes his life." OR s.I v.IIComment
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Just completing the info on Otto Boetticher (Botticher) He was "stricken from the rolls of the Army, for being captured by the enemy while straggling without authority beyond the outposts on the Army, March 29, 1862." General orders, No. 42, 1862.Eric Stephenson
[URL="http://www.military-historians.org/"]The Company of Military Historians[/URL]
[URL="http://lodge245.doylestownmasons.org/"]Doylestown Masonic Lodge No. 245 Free and Accepted Masons[/URL]
"Captain Dike is in the hands of some brother Masons, and to the Order he owes his life." OR s.I v.IIComment
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