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Hello #fediverse! Time for an #introduction 🚀
poliastro is an #opensource (MIT) pure #Python library for interactive #Astrodynamics and #OrbitalMechanics. It provides a simple and intuitive API, it's fast thanks to #numba, and it handles physical quantities with units thanks to #Astropy.
🌐 Website https://www.poliastro.space/
:github: Source code https://github.com/poliastro/poliastroWe will be posting tips, news about the project, and cool plots. Stay tuned!
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I indulged myself re-reading my finest ever piece of writing: the poliastro 2022 paper for #SciPyUS2022 doi.org/10.25080/maj... Now re-rendered with @curvenote.com to look extra cool 🔥 I'm so damn proud of this work. I miss Astrodynamics and applied math so much 💔 #python #scipy #astrodynamics
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20 maggio, roma, “exit poetry” @ bianco contemporaneo
A Roma, mercoledì 20 maggio 2026, alle ore 18:00
presso la galleria Bianco Contemporaneo
(via Reno 18/a)
nel contesto della mostra IDENTIKIT, di Pignotti + Hogresi presenta il libro di voci di poesia
EXIT POETRY
Poesia futuraa cura di
Aldo Nove, Gilda Policastro e Lello Voce
(La Nave di Teseo, 2026)introduce l’incontro
Gilda Policastroleggono
Sara Ventroni, Gabriele Stera,
Antonio Francesco Perozzi, Marco GiovenaleL’occasione della mostra presso Bianco Contemporaneo di due artisti come Lamberto Pignotti e Hogre, che nel loro lavoro fanno scattare vari congegni di deviazione / nascondimento / disseminazione dell’identità, è quanto mai in sincrono & sintonia con un libro che sembra interrogarsi come pochi altri, oggi, sulle tante identità della poesia (e della postpoesia) contemporanea. “Exit Poetry raccoglie 25 autori e autrici che hanno popolato con le loro parole, i loro pensieri, le loro voci, questi primi 25 anni del ventunesimo secolo”. Gilda Policastro, co-curatrice del volume, ne spiegherà il progetto dando poi la parola a quattro venticinquesimi dell’intero…
l’incontro su mobilizon:
https://mobilizon.it/events/600e040c-71f6-4756-8e01-44b9d6de842bevento facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1345967000761083La Nave di Teseo
https://lanavediteseo.eu/portfolio/exit-poetry-poesia-futura/la galleria
https://www.biancocontemporaneo.it/*
Bianco Contemporaneo è una galleria d’arte di sperimentazione – investigazione
#AldoNove #AntonioFrancescoPerozzi #BiancoContemporaneo #ExitPoetry #GabrieleStera #GildaPolicastro #GildaPolicastroELelloVoce #Hogre #Identikit #LaNaveDiTeseo #LambertoPignotti #MarcoGiovenale #Pignotti #presentazione #reading #SaraVentroni
dell’ambiente artistico volta a scenari sia storici che contemporanei ed è attiva
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oggi, 25 maggio, a roma, al palazzo delle esposizioni, “giornata pagliarani”: convegno, film, premiazione dei poeti
Decima edizione del Premio Nazionale Elio Pagliarani, 2025
www.premionazionaleeliopagliarani.itGIORNATA PAGLIARANI
OGGI, domenica 25 maggio 2025,
presso la Sala Cinema del Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma
(Ingresso dalla scalinata di Via Milano 9a)PROGRAMMA
Ore 10 – 13
Elio Pagliarani bibliofilo e la Biblioteca Elio Pagliarani
Interventi di
Barbara Mancini, Frammenti di Elio tra periodici e antologie: uno spoglio della Biblioteca Pagliarani; Marianna Marrucci, “…li spendevo quasi tutti in libri…”. Figure di libri in Promemoria a Liarosa;
Marco Menato, Pagliarani bibliofilo; Lucia Merolla, La biblioteca di casa Pagliarani,
Marco Palma, Gli incunaboli di Elio Pagliarani; Gilda Policastro, Il Savonarola non castrato di PagliaraniCoordina i lavori
Giuseppe Andrea Liberti*
Ore 14:30 – 15:00
Proiezione del film L’Architetta Carla
di Davide Minotti realizzato con Valeria Miracapillo*
Ore 15:00 – 17:00
Dieci anni di premiati. Il Premio Nazionale Elio Pagliarani (2015-2025)
Poeti partecipanti, critici e giurati, dalla prospettiva privilegiata delle varie edizioni del premio Elio Pagliarani, si incontrano e dibattono sui dieci anni di attività poetica in ItaliaCoordina Andrea Cortellessa
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Ore 17:00 – 19:30
Cerimonia di premiazione della Decima Edizione del Premio Nazionale Elio PagliaraniConduce Arnaldo Colasanti
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evento facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/569318926191670*
PDF / locandina : informazioni sul convegno
PDF / locandina : Giornata Pagliarani#AndreaCortellessa #antologie #ArnaldoColasanti #BarbaraMancini #CettaPetrolloPagliarani #convegno #ConvegnoElioPagliaraniBibliofiloELaBibliotecaElioPagliarani #DavideMinotti #ElioPagliarani #ElioPagliaraniBibliofilo #ElioPagliaraniBibliofiloELaBibliotecaElioPagliarani #film #GildaPolicastro #GiuseppeAndreaLiberti #incunaboli #IstitutiCulturaliRomani #LaBibliotecaElioPagliarani #LArchitettaCarla #LiaPagliarani #LuciaMerolla #MarcoMenato #MarcoPalma #MariannaMarrucci #MarioDondero #PagliaraniBibliofilo #PalazzoDelleEsposizioni #PalazzoDelleEsposizioniDiRoma #periodici #PoloIEI #PromemoriaALiarosa #salaCinema #Savonarola #ValeriaMiracapillo
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25 maggio, roma, palazzo delle esposizioni, “giornata pagliarani”: convegno, film, premiazione dei poeti
Decima edizione del Premio Nazionale Elio Pagliarani, 2025
www.premionazionaleeliopagliarani.itGIORNATA PAGLIARANI
Domenica 25 maggio 2025, Sala Cinema del Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma
(Ingresso dalla scalinata di Via Milano 9a)PROGRAMMA
Ore 10 – 13
Elio Pagliarani bibliofilo e la Biblioteca Elio Pagliarani
Interventi di
Barbara Mancini, Frammenti di Elio tra periodici e antologie: uno spoglio della Biblioteca Pagliarani; Marianna Marrucci, “…li spendevo quasi tutti in libri…”. Figure di libri in Promemoria a Liarosa;
Marco Menato, Pagliarani bibliofilo; Lucia Merolla, La biblioteca di casa Pagliarani,
Marco Palma, Gli incunaboli di Elio Pagliarani; Gilda Policastro, Il Savonarola non castrato di PagliaraniCoordina i lavori
Giuseppe Andrea Liberti*
Ore 14:30 – 15:00
Proiezione del film L’Architetta Carla
di Davide Minotti realizzato con Valeria Miracapillo*
Ore 15:00 – 17:00
Dieci anni di premiati. Il Premio Nazionale Elio Pagliarani (2015-2025)
Poeti partecipanti, critici e giurati, dalla prospettiva privilegiata delle varie edizioni del premio Elio Pagliarani, si incontrano e dibattono sui dieci anni di attività poetica in ItaliaCoordina Andrea Cortellessa
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Ore 17:00 – 19:30
Cerimonia di premiazione della Decima Edizione del Premio Nazionale Elio PagliaraniConduce Arnaldo Colasanti
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evento facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/569318926191670CARTELLA STAMPA AGGIORNATA:
https://tinyurl.com/pagliarani25*
PDF / locandina : informazioni sul convegno
PDF / locandina : Giornata Pagliaranicliccare per ingrandire
#AndreaCortellessa #antologie #ArnaldoColasanti #BarbaraMancini #CettaPetrolloPagliarani #convegno #ConvegnoElioPagliaraniBibliofiloELaBibliotecaElioPagliarani #DavideMinotti #ElioPagliarani #ElioPagliaraniBibliofilo #ElioPagliaraniBibliofiloELaBibliotecaElioPagliarani #film #GildaPolicastro #GiuseppeAndreaLiberti #incunaboli #IstitutiCulturaliRomani #LaBibliotecaElioPagliarani #LArchitettaCarla #LiaPagliarani #LuciaMerolla #MarcoMenato #MarcoPalma #MariannaMarrucci #MarioDondero #PagliaraniBibliofilo #PalazzoDelleEsposizioni #PalazzoDelleEsposizioniDiRoma #periodici #PoloIEI #PromemoriaALiarosa #salaCinema #Savonarola #ValeriaMiracapillo
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oggi, 21 marzo, a roma, allo studio campo boario: misticanza di scritture e arti varie (con mercatino di libri)
a Roma, oggi, sabato 21 marzo 2026, dalle 10 alle 22
(con una pausa dalle 13:30 alle 15:30)MISTICANZA allo Studio Campo Boario
in viale del Campo Boario 3 e 4aovvero
→ Libridine – mercatino del libro (tutto il giorno, tranne la pausa del pranzo)
→ Presentazione della collana “Micropoetiche”, h. 17:00, a cura di Roberta Melasecca
→ Laboratorio Bloomsbury – Scrittura orizzontale, h. 17:30, (con il workshop “Vita Morte”,
a cura di Giovanna Mori e Alberto D’Amico)→ Lettura di poete, h. 19:00, parallelamente, nello spazio cinema, a cura di Bruno Crucitti
→ MISTICANZA – Reading no stop (dalle 18 alle 22 e oltre, se necessario) con letture di
Domenico Adriano, Marcello Allotta, Massimo Arduini, artisti§innocenti, Mariano Bàino, Paolo Bielli, Marco Caporali, Maria Teresa Carbone, Barbara Carle, Benedetta Cascella, Laura Cingolani, Fabio Ciriachi, Fiammetta Cirilli, Davide Cortese, Mario Corticelli, Francesco Dalessandro, Alberto D’Amico, Elisa Davoglio, Carlotta Decrock, Luigi Di Cicco, Nina Eaton, Massimo Fedele, Edoardo Ferri, Giovanna Floris, Marco Giovenale, Rita Iacomino, Fabio Lapiana, Maite Wander Garden, Giulio Marzaioli, Donatella Mei, Roberta Melasecca, Francesco Paolo Memmo, Renata Morresi, Fabio Orecchini, Tommaso Ottonieri, Eda Özbakay, Gabriella Pace, Antonella Antonia Paolini, Francesca Perinelli, Gilda Policastro, Luciana Preden, Gian Paolo Renello, Lidia Riviello, Roberto Varese, Caterina Varzi, Manuela Vigorita, Domenico Vuotoin conclusione, dessert:
Poeti (o prosatori) per un giorno
– con ospiti vari –evento su Mobilizon:
https://mobilizon.it/events/955a66de-f54c-4bd2-993b-e060f7c837d2evento fb: https://www.facebook.com/share/17Aqet1WRS/
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“Misticanza” nasce dall’idea di mescolanza come pratica delle arti e postura culturale. Il nome rimanda a un insieme di erbe diverse – spontanee, amare, aromatiche – che convivono nello stesso piatto senza annullarsi. Allo stesso modo, le scritture contemporanee (come le pratiche artistiche) convivono in uno spazio plurale: attraversato da linguaggi, generazioni, forme e modalità espressive differenti.
Lo Studio Campo Boario, fedele alla propria vocazione interdisciplinare, propone per il 21 marzo una giornata che non celebra la scrittura come griglia chiusa di generi (poesia, romanzo, diario, …) ma come territorio poroso, oltretutto in dialogo con arti visive, filosofia, suono e pratica laboratoriale. La “misticanza” è metodo e metafora: accostare, contaminare, far coesistere approcci diversi alla scrittura senza gerarchie, favorendo un ascolto reciproco.
L’evento prende avvio da un gesto fondativo – la lettura di poete – che ha generato, per propagazione, tutte le altre iniziative della giornata. Da qui si sviluppa un programma che alterna editoria indipendente, laboratori, presentazioni e reading, fino a una maratona di scritture aperta e imprevedibile.§
TRA GLI EDITORI E LE COLLANE PARTECIPANTI:
Benway Series, déclic Edizioni volatili, IFIX, Il Labirinto, La camera verde, Lyceum / “Scuola delle cose”, pièdimosca (collana ‘glossa’), Syn _ scritture di ricerca / ikonaLíber, TIC Edizioni§
ULTERIORI INFORMAZIONI E DETTAGLI nel seguente pdf:
dettagli & spiegazioni per MISTICANZA_ 21 marzo 2026_ dalle 10 alle 22 allo Studio Campo BoarioCOMUNICATO STAMPA IN FORMATO PDF:
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An unlikely home for a King of France: the thread about the Palace of Holyroodhouse
This thread was originally written and published in September 2022.
Given that the Palace of Holyroodhouse was getting more attention than it is used to in the week that this thread was first written, it seemed like a good idea to take a brief delve into its history of royal residents and one who is highly remarkable but far less well remembered than others.
The Palace of Holyroodhouse, lithograph after J. D. Harding, c. 1850. CC-by-3.0 University of Edinburgh Walter Scott Image CollectionThe palace is well known to be the official residence of the British Monarch in Scotland, but that’s a role that it has only held for just over 100 years, with King George V conferring the status upon it in 1922. It’s also well known that it long served as a royal residence for the Scottish monarchy going back to medieval times, with this situation ending in 1603 when King James VI left it, Edinburgh and Scotland for London and the English throne. James was the palace’s longest term royal resident, being principally based there from his coming of age in 1579 until he left 24 years later. He had promised to return to Edinburgh every 3 years, but did not keep his word and would not return until 1617 (and then after that, never again). There is therefore a period of four centuries to be accounted for between James’ departure and George’s designation.
The young King James VI, painting by Adrian van Son from the collection in Pittencrieff House in FifeAfter James, Royal visits were infrequent. Charles I stayed here when he came to Edinburgh in 1633 for his showpiece Scottish coronation, the façade being remodelled in his honour. He returned to the palace in the turbulent year of 1641, and in 1646, conferred it to one of his principal Scottish supporters; James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton. The hereditary role of Keeper of the palace is one that the Dukes of Hamilton hold hold to this day. It was badly damaged in 1650 by the occupying troops of Oliver Cromwell after their defeat of the Scottish Army at Dunbar. The picture below shows the palace at it was in 1649 following the remodelling for Charles.
The west range of the palace drawn around 1649 by James Gordon of Rothiemay, prior to reconstruction in the 1670s.After the Restoration in 1660, repairs were made to the palace to allow it to be occupied by Charles II as required and to be a meeting place for his Scottish Privy Council. It was reconstructed between 1670-79 by and it is rumoured that funds and materials for this project were diverted towards the construction of Royston House. The King however did not intend to reside there himself, rather it was to be a seat of his power by proxy in the country, the seat of not just the Privy Council but also the residence of the Lord High Commissioner for Scotland. In 1679, this was James, Duke of Albany, the future King James VII (II of England). His daughter Anne, the future Queen Anne, was also resident with him. When James ascended to the throne in 1685, he set up a Jesuit college in the grounds. The following year he had the Protestant congregation that was worshipping in the Holyrood Abbey Kirk evicted and converted that building to a ceremonial Chapel Royal for his newly created Order of the Thistle. Both of these acts provoked outrage amongst the Edinburgh mob and in 1688 they would destroy the college and desecrate the chapel and its tombs following William of Orange’s taking of the throne.
Engraving after John Elphinstone esq. of the Palace and Abbey from the southeast around 1740. The roof of the Abbey Kirk would collapse in 1786 under its own weight. © Royal Collections Trust, RCIN 702898Following the abolition of the separate Scottish Privy Council on the Act of Union in 1707, the primary function of the palace as a centre of government ceased to be and it was increasingly turned over to grace-and-favour use by the Scottish nobility. This was interrupted briefly by a royal visit in 1745 when a certain man with claim to being a future King Charles III paid an uninvited visit – Charles Edward Stuart, better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie.
An imagined scene of Charles Edward Stuart holding court at Holyroodhouse during the occupation of 1745. A highly romanticised 1880 illustration by William Brassey Hole © Edinburgh City LibrariesJacobite excitement aside, for the next 100 or so years, British monarchs were uninterested in what was an increasingly decrepit old building in a bad neighbourhood in town; hemmed in on 2 sides by the increasingly undesirable tenements of the Canongate, on another by an irrigated meadow for the settling of sewage as fertiliser and all around by brewing on an industrial scale. It was not until 1822 that a reigning British monarch would visit, the first since Charles I in 1641; King George IV lodged in the far more comfortable surroundings of Dalkeith Palace, but was given a tour of the ancient seat of Royalty and held a reception there. The Palace would not begin to be rehabilitated until the reign of Queen Victoria, its resident nobility being slowly turfed out and it was gradually repaired, restored and improved. But no monarch or senior royal has made Holyrood a permanent home since James VI left over 420 years ago…
Scene Outside Holyrood Palace, the Arrival of George IV, watercolour sketch by Sir John James Stuart. CC-by-NC National Galleries ScotlandOr have they? When I say “no monarch or senior royal” I mean of the British royal family, because you may be surprised to learn that the palace’s 2nd longest royal resident was none other than Charles Philippe, Comte d’Artois, younger brother of King Louis XVI and later King Charles X of France! This future monarch would spend 7 years at Holyrood from 1796 to 1803 with his mistress, Louise de Polastron, following his flight from the French Revolution. When he arrived in Edinburgh, reputedly half the city turned out to welcome him, despite his wish for a low-key reception. He would find Holyrood’s legal status as a debtor’s sanctuary particularly suited to his lifestyle choices.
Charles X as Count of Artois in 1798. Portrait by Henri-Pierre DanlouxNearly thirty years later, he would return to Holyrood as the recently deposed King Charles X following the Second French Revolution, arriving in 1830 and staying this time for two years. He lived with his young grandson, Henri d’Artois, Count of Chambord and Duke of Bordeaux, who had very briefly spend a few days on the French throne as the last Bourbon king. Charles’ son Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême and his wife Marie-Thérèse (who, as daughter of Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette was also Charles’ niece) also fled the wrath of the French republic and made their home in town, staying at 21 Regent Terrace (now 22), overlooking the palace. Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, Duchess de Berry and sister-in-law of Louis-Antoine, lived a few doors down at number 11 (now 12) at this time.
22 Regent Terrace. CC-by-SA 4.0 SylviaStanleyWhile Edinburgh provided a safe retreat for the French royals, they reputedly found the Scots “tiresome and odd.” They kept themselves distant from their host city, snubbed offers from its institutions and despaired at the prevalence of Sabbatarianism. In turn were an object of fascination for the locals and the Scottish nobility were “astonished” by their “gastronomic powers“. City caricaturist John Kay captured Charles in 1796, walking hand in arm with Lord Adam Gordon, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in Scotland and Governor of Edinburgh Castle.
Charles as Comte d’Artois (right) and Lord Adam Gordon. Caricature by John Kay, 1796. © National Portrait Gallery, NPG D15136Charles and his family left Edinburgh for Austria on September 18th 1832, his departure being a public spectacle, as the young Henri in particular was a favourite in the city. The Scotsman reported that “white gloves, white ribbons and white favours of various kinds were worn by a large proportion of the people assembled.” Many white flags can be seen in the illustration below also, these were not a symbol of surrender, but the flag of the Bourbon restoration. The departure was from the Trinity Chain Pier on the 9AM steamer , the SS United Kingdom, from Newhaven to Hamburg, which is what can be seen in the background of the painting.
The departure of Charles X to Austria with his grandson Henri, 18 September 1832. It is probably the Duke and Duchess of Angoulême stepping out of the carriage. Painting by Charles Achille d’HardivillerCharles was now gone for good, but did leave one lasting mark upon the city from his residency. Disliking the attention he attracted from locals wherever we went, he had William Playfair include a convenient gated path through Regent Gardens to allow him to walk unmolested to hear Mass at St. Mary’s Chapel (now St. Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral) at Picardy Place. Whether that story is apocryphal or not, there are indeed gates at both the north and south end of the western boundary of Regent Gardens and pleasant paths laid out between the two.
Regent Gardens and the western gates, marked on the 1849 OS Town Plan of Edinburgh. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandNote to readers: unfortunately in April 2026, a third-party plug-in more than exceeded its authority and broke many of the image links on this site. No images were lost but I will have to restore them page-by-page, which may take some time. In the meantime please bear with me while I go about rectifying this issue.
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“Thanksgiving 1864: Raising the Flag at the Sheridan Field Hospital Near Winchester, Virginia,” 1864 (James E. Taylor, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, public domain).
In response to the stunning casualty count incurred by the Union Army following the Battle of Opequan, Virginia on September 19, 1864 (also known as “Third Winchester”), senior Union Army medical personnel realized that drastic improvements in federal military medical services were needed—and needed quickly—if Major-General Philip Sheridan and his Army of the Shenandoah were to continue waging successful war against the Confederate States Army troops commanded by Lieutenant-General Jubal Early.
Three days after that pivotal battle, U.S. Army Surgeon James T. Ghiselin, the medical director of the Army of the Shenandoah and Sheridan’s direct report, ordered one of his subordinates, U.S. Army Surgeon John H. Brinton, to plan and implement a new Union Army field hospital that would be capable of delivering higher quality medical care to the thousands of Union Army troops who would likely be wounded over the coming weeks and months.
Erected near Major-General Sheridan’s Winchester, Virginia headquarters, this new medical facility was initially referred to by the name of its location—Shawnee Springs—and was subsequently renamed as the Sheridan Field Hospital.
First opened with five hundred beds, it became so large that it stretched north from Shawnee Springs to the Church Ridge property of Jacob Senseny. Staffed by twenty physicians, it was stocked early on with enough medical supplies to care for five thousand troops, the first of whom were transported from regimental and other field hospital facilities near Winchester’s Northern railyard.
The grounds also included administrative buildings and housing for military and medical personnel. As late fall turned to winter, it was all kept warm by a radiant heating system, which appeared to be an improvement over the initial system of “Crimean Ovens” that were used to heat Union Army field hospitals during the first year of the war.
Regimental and division surgeons from the Union Army treat Union soldiers inside of the St. Thomas Episcopal Church near Winchester, Virginia, following the Battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864 (James E. Taylor, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, public domain).
In an almost constant state of expansion until mid-October 1864, Sheridan Field Hospital soon began to accept Union Army patients from battles farther away. The process often unfolded as follows:
- Regimental surgeons rendered immediate care to their units’ wounded, dressing wounds and performing amputations wherever they could find safe spaces—inside churches, farmhouses or tents—but still close enough to actual battlefields to provide the kinds of triage and emergency care that would stabilize soldiers enough for them to be transported to the Sheridan Field Hospital for more advanced treatment by better trained medical personnel.
- Once those patients arrived at Sheridan Hospital, the surgeons there frequently performed more intricate surgeries over extended periods of time for a range of grievous injuries (artillery and gunshot wounds to soldiers’ heads, bodies or limbs, for example), and also treated patients for fevers, gangrene, tetanus and other related complications.
- Physicians then collaborated with nurses and hospital stewards to help soldiers reach the point where they were able to be moved on to other Union Army hospitals in northern locations, where they were able to receive extended rehabilitative care while they were safely housed behind Union lines.
Commanded by U.S. Army Surgeon James Van Zandt Blaney, the physicians, nurses and hospital stewards stationed at Sheridan Field Hospital ultimately treated well over four thousand Union Army soldiers from the time of this temporary facility’s opening on September 28, 1864 until its closing on January 4, 1865, creating the largest field hospital operation during the American Civil War. They also secured help from the U.S. Sanitary Commission to feed and clothe soldiers in preparation for their honorable discharges on surgeons’ certificates of disabilities or their transfers to other facilities.
Among those cared for during this time, were more than three thousand casualties transported from multiple farms and other sites related to the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, which took place on October 19, 1864.
Sheridan’s physicians finally sent their last remaining patient away to another facility on December 28, 1864.
Although few traces of this famed field hospital remain today, sharp-eyed visitors to the Shawnee Springs Preserve in Virginia will be able to find a wayside marker that was erected on Opequon Avenue in Winchester (on the right side of the street when traveling south), which commemorates this field hospital’s role in preserving America’s Union.
Sources:
- Bean, Robert, Bjarne W. Olesen, and Kwang Woo Kim. “History of Radiant Heating & Cooling Systems,” in ASHRAE Journal, vol. 52, no. 2 (2010). Peachtree Corners, Georgia: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE).
- Beck, Brandon. “The Third Battle of Winchester.” New Market, Virginia: Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation, retrieved online December 27, 2023.
- Policastro, Anatoly. “Civil War Crimean Ovens: Origins, Models, and Modifications,” in The Journal of Civil War Medicine, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 267-279, October/November/December 2017. Reynoldsburg, Ohio: The Society of Civil War Surgeons, Inc.
- “Shawnee Springs Hospital.” The Historical Marker Database, retrieved online December 27, 2023.
- “Stop 13—Shawnee Springs: Sheridan’s Field Hospital,” in “Winchester at War: Battlefield Driving Tour.” Washington, D.C.: History eLibrary, U.S. National Park Service, retrieved online December 27, 2023.
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R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Levanger #Hojemsvegen Patrulje på stedet sammen med brannvesenet og en overtent rundballpresse. Ikke fare for spredning til noe annet.
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R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Steinkjer Container veltet over på siden og i motsatt kjørefelt. Ingen personskade. Sjåfør blåst til 0,0. Politiet oppretter sak.
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R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Trondheim #Sentrum Fornærmede er en mann i 40-årene. Han blir kjørt til sykehus av ambulanse. Politiet søker etter gjerningspersonen.
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R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Oppdal Pasienten var bevisst hele tiden og ble fløyet med NLA til SOH. Politiet har startet etterforskning og foretatt vitneavhør og tekniske undersøkelser på stedet. Oppretter sak.
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R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Steinkjer For ytterligere opplysninger i saken henvises til Innherred Politistasjonsdistrikt mandag.
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R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Levanger #ÅsenE6 Patruljen har gjort undersøkelser på stedet, fremstår som fører har hatt en betydelig fart, truffet autovern og motorsykkel har store skader i front. Fører er ikke avhørt. Patruljen oppretter sak, dert er også besluttet førerkortbeslag.
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R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Levanger #ÅsenE6 Pasienten blir fraktet med luftambulansen til SOH. Patruljen gjør undersøkelser på stedet. Bilberging blir rekvirert.
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R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Levanger #ÅsenE6 Nødetater fremme på stedet, hendelsen er nord for Åsen sentrum. Det er trafikkdirigering på stedet..
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R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Verdal #Sentrum Politiet oppretter sak, personbil har brutt vikeplikten og kjørt inn i mopedisten i et vegkryss.
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R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Verdal #Sentrum Ingen trafikale problemer på stedet. Politiet tar imot forklaring av de involverte. Mopedist blir med ambulansen for sjekk.
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R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Stjørdal #Sentrum Den savnede er funnet i god behold.
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R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Steinkjer #Beistad Politiet og Statens Vegvesen er ferdig med undersøkelser på stedet og veien er åpnet for trafikk.
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R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Steinkjer #Beistad To ungdommer satt i mopedbilen. En av disse er bekreftet omkommet. Den andre personen er alvorlig skadd og flydd til St Olavs Hospital med NLA. Pårørende er varslet. Fører av personbilen framstår som uskadd. Kriseteam er varslet. Jour jurist svarer ut media.
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R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Heim/ FV680/ Rovatnet-på bru ved Naustbakkan: ambulanse tar med seg de tre involverte til legevakta for undersøkelse, fremstår som uskadet.
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R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Heim/ FV680/ Rovatnet-på bru ved Naustbakkan: bilen sperrer et kjørefelt, airbagger utløst.
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Fører av den ene bilen, en mann i 20-årene, får førerkortet beslaglagt for å ha kommet over i motsatt kjørefelt og forårsaket ulykken. -
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Front mot frontulykke i 60-sone. Begge førere fremstår som uskadd. Bilene blir berget. Vi forventer ikke store utfordringer med trafikken. -
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Sted for ulykken rettes til Stiklestad Alle, mellom rundkjøringene. -
R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Verdal/ Haukåsvegen: fører blir fraktet av ambulanse til legevakta, pga smerter i fot. Traktor har veltet i forbindelse med slåing av gress.
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R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Heimdal
Dame i 30-åra innbragt til arresten for bevissikring. Bilen hun brukte var lovlig lånt, og den er tilbakelevert bileier. Stjålet post leveres tilbake til Posten. Damen anmeldes for tyveri, kjøring i beruset tilstand og kjøring uten gyldig førerkort. -
R to @PolitiTrondelag: #Osen Motorsyklisten fraktet til SOH med redningshelikopter. Sak opprettes.