The second day of Independence Day weekend at Fort Meigs 1813 in Perrysburg, Ohio on Sunday.
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JoLynn Winebernner, 14, left, her mom Katie Winebernner, and her brother Gage, 11, all of Montpelier, listen as Billie Szymanski answers a question about surgery during the War of 1812.
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Some of the tools used by a surgeon. Because the importance of clean instruments was not understood at the time, surgeons in the War of 1812 did not change or clean surgical instruments between operations, unless they were so bloody that they had to be wiped off to hold.
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Pvt. Daniel Wilkens, of Columbus, in the quartermaster building.
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Billie Szymanski as a matron. Any woman at the fort had to be married to a soldier and work as a laundress, herbalist, or aid a surgeon. Only about 1% of the people at the fort were women, says Szymanski, and there were no children at the fort. She is sitting with some surgeon's tools in the quartermaster building. [Billie Szymanski is married to Tony Szymanski. She gave her residence as Springfield Township; he gave his residence as Holland].
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Tony Szymanski wears a speed loader for a rifleman during the War of 1812.
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Rifleman Tony Szymanski, left, talks with Darlane Abel, of Pittsburgh, about his rifle and the equipment a rifleman carried during the War of 1812
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Rifleman Tony Szymanski, left, talks with Darlane Abel, of Pittsburgh, about his rifle and the equipment a rifleman carried during the War of 1812.
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Cpl. Dan Woodward, of Maumee, left and front, fires a flintlock musket in a demonstration of the sound of it the soldier hears to a group of visitors to the fort.
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Cpl. Dan Woodward, of Maumee, left and front, talks about the flintlock musket he is holding to a group of visitors to the fort.
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Flintlock muskets and a rifle, foreground, are fired in a demonstration at the fort.
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Lynn Bristol, of North Ridgeville, and a volunteer for 29 years, left, teaches Granger Abbuhl, 6, center, and his brother Gavin, 7, how to play Nine Man Morris. It is one of several games of the period that could be played during the weekend. The Abbuhls have lived in Rapid City, South Dakota, and are moving to North Carolina.
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Martin Land, of Northwood, sews a brass button onto his uniform. He represents a private in Cushing's Company, 2nd U.S. Artillery. The button is one of 12 buttons which have a function on the uniform; 16 others serve no function.
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Julia Davidov, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, rear, covers the ears of her daughter Mair, seven months, while her son Nigel, 5.5 years, plugs his own ears while a howitzer is fired.
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