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George Michael Neese, New Market, VA. (1839-1921)

Served in the Army of Northern Virginia beginning in 1861 in a local militia before becoming a gunner in Chew's Battery of Stuart's Horse Artillery. The unit saw plenty of action & Neese was captured at Fisher’s Hill, VA in Oct 1864. He was sent to the Federal prison at Point Lookout, MD where he was eventually paroled after signing the Oath of Allegiance to the Union & arrived home on July 4th, 1865. Neese kept a journal throughout the war, only missed writing an entry on a few days. His journal was published in book form in 1911 titled "Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery."

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Alain Delon certainly knew how to wear a hat. He died today aged 88.

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His passing was reported on the BBC. He never recovered from the stroke that he had a year ago. So sad.

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The hat worn by actor Harrison Ford in the second instalment of the Indiana Jones film franchise has sold for nearly half a million pounds at auction.
The brown felt fedora, specifically made for the Temple of Doom film, fetched $630,000 (£487,000) in Los Angeles on Thursday.
Jones is seen with the hat early on in the movie where he and his companions jump from a crashing plane in an inflatable raft.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4x542vlrwo
 

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His passing was reported on the BBC. He never recovered from the stroke that he had a year ago. So sad.

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The hat worn by actor Harrison Ford in the second instalment of the Indiana Jones film franchise has sold for nearly half a million pounds at auction.
The brown felt fedora, specifically made for the Temple of Doom film, fetched $630,000 (£487,000) in Los Angeles on Thursday.
Jones is seen with the hat early on in the movie where he and his companions jump from a crashing plane in an inflatable raft.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4x542vlrwo
I was just about to post about this when you dropped it lol Great minds think alike! Man $630,000...... A $100 ebay hat looks a lot nicer now lol
 

RickP

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One of my Grandfathers... John William Pleasant (1884-1953) about 1920 somewhere around St Louis. Electrical Engineer that pre depression made a good living between real jobs converting buildings in downtown St Louis from gas light to electric lights. Owned his own electrical company in St Louis. Multiple patents related to motor winding processes. Ill call him a "Traveling Engineer"...Ive tracked him from Alabama, to Ohio, to Detroit, to California, to Missouri, back to Ohio, Back to California, back to Alabama, and then to Tennessee

Real Jobs Included Vultee Aircraft in California (Later Consolidated, and the Lockheed) as well as Wright Aeronautical in Ohio, Westinghouse, and was a lead electrical engineer winding electromagnets and motors in Oak Ridge Tenn at the k-25 Unranium Gasseous Diffusion Plant during ww2 for the Manhattan Project. With all that technical experience, it was interesting that during the depression, he was plant manager at a handful of Cement plants for National Cement and Portland ( guess when you need a job, you do what gives you a paycheck.

I have his pocket watch chain and masonic watch fob that are in this pic but unfortunately no hat. Interesting to see him in the pre depression days with suits, overcoats gloves and jewelry.. Quite Dapper. Id die to know what hats he wore. Dad said during the 40's he bought his hats at Sears in either Birmingham, Al and Knoxville, Tn. In his later years it was short sleeve shirts and chino pants. Family story is about how between the depression and his first wife leaving him, he lost everything in the early 30s and had to start over

Hes at least famous in MY mind

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