DELAND The crew behind the restoration of the J.W. Wright Building has always known the property is special.
Now, it s official, because the 101-year-old building at 258 W. Voorhis Ave., the center of what used to be a thriving district for the Black community, made it to the National Register of Historic Places. After several different hurdles, we were able to make that accomplishment, and I am just stoked about it, said Mario Davis, executive director of Greater Union Life Center Inc., a DeLand-based nonprofit that owns the building.
Davis said restoration expert Mark Shuttleworth, who owns downtown s Florida Victorian Architectural Salvage, and Sidney Johnston, assistant director in Stetson University s Office of Grants, Sponsored Research and Strategic Initiatives, were instrumental in bringing that goal to fruition.
and rifles in 1862 which by the last year of the war i i had had given union cavalry and some union infantry a great advantage in tactical combat and as you said, lincoln was instrumental in getting john ericsson the contract for the monitor, and spent a great deal of time at the navy yard with john dahlgren, inventor of the foremost naval gun, watching the testing of the naval guns at the washington naval yard. he also went up to west pointe in june of 1862 and watched the test of parent rifle cannon at the cold spring army, which is just across the hudson river from west pointe. so lincoln was very much open and on top of the changing technology of warfare, and did, in fact, play a creative role in getting more advanced weaponry for the union army and navy. what about davis? davis is less hands-on than lincoln but i think every bit as interested in the potential of technology, and innovation and indeed in almost any conflict in history the underdog is the one who is mos
last year of the war i i had had given union cavalry and some union infantry a great advantage in tactical combat and as you said, lincoln was instrumental in getting john ericsson the contract for the monitor, and spent a great deal of time at the navy yard with john dahlgren, inventor of the foremost naval gun, watching the testing of the naval guns at the washington naval yard. he also went up to west pointe in june of 1862 and watched the test of parent rifle cannon at the cold spring army, which is just across the hudson river from west pointe. so lincoln was very much open and on top of the changing technology of warfare, and did, in fact, play a creative role in getting more advanced weaponry for the union army and navy. what about davis? davis is less hands-on than lincoln but i think every bit as interested in the potential of technology, and innovation and indeed in almost any conflict in history the underdog is the one who is most likely to be willing to try an
of spencer repeating carbines and rifles in 1862 which by the last year of the war i i had had given union cavalry and some union infantry a great advantage in tactical combat and as you said, lincoln was instrumental ain getting john ericsson the contract for the monitor, and spent a great deal of time at the navy yard with john dahlgren, inventor of the foremost naval gun, watching the testing of the naval guns at the washington naval yard. he also went up to west pointe in june of 1862 and watched the test of parent rifle cannon at the cold spring army, which is just across the hudson river from west pointe. so lincoln was very much open and on top of the changing technology of warfare, and did, in fact, play a creative role in getting more advanced weaponry for the union army and navy. what about davis? davis is less hands-on than lincoln but i think every bit as interested in the potential of technology, and innovation and indeed in almost any conflict in history the
children and grandchildren out there. along with other authors that write on the western theater. i just want you to know that we re colleagues and there s no conflict or anything between us. that s right. we see each other we disagree but it s once a year we get together and have a great time. so i just want everyone to know that. you just spoiled the secret for everyone. we re mortal enemies. let me end again just by rooting us in the reality of what happened here and it was mentioned in the movie and shown so well. but consider this again. some 63,000 union soldiers fought at shiloh. 63,000. there were 40,000 confederate soldiers. the casualties for the union were about 13,000. the casualties for the confederates were about 10,700. but consider this very important point. the casualties for the confederates represented 27% of the people that fought on the confederate side at that battle. on the union side it was 21%. so consider what that meant later on for th