Some of you might find this interesting

[Carter Simcoe]

CNN.com has a photogallery up relating to a story about some newly released American Civil War era photographs.  Its java script or something, and I can’t find an easy way to link to it so I’m gonna sort of rip this off.  Zach, fix it if you want.

Picture:

Text:
“Union Gen. Herman Haupt crosses the Potomac River on a one-man pontoon boat he invented. Gen. Haupt, who graduated from West Point in 1835, was a civil engineer and used the boat for scouting and inspecting bridges.”  -CNN.com

Looks sort of familiar to some of you huh?

[Zach Matthews]

Wow.

[Zach Matthews]

Hmm.

[Carter Simcoe]

oh yeah, I can handle that, I just wasn’t sure if I should hotlink from cnn or not.

[Mike Anderson]

Several years later his descendants still are hanging onto the idea.

[Carter Simcoe]

ha ha, the ironic thing is that might be able to pass for me from far off.

[Zach Matthews]

I may have one from that day we stole that dock.

[Cameron Mortenson]

Hey…that fellow on the makeshift raft looks like he could be the Great…Great-Father of the “Itinerant Angler” Man that used to be on the front page of this website…eh Zach?

[Zach Matthews]

You’ve got a good memory Cameron.

[Cameron Mortenson]

Wasn’t there some animation at some point as well…a crackling fire at his feet?

[Zach Matthews]

Yes there was – too heavy, though, and not drawn well enough.

[guy karafa]

I can’t tell if the General is looking for troops, or for a likely place to cast!

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