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by Artist Howard Massey
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The Battle of Buckhorn Tavern
On October 12th of 1863 LTG "Fighting" Joe Wheeler, CSA, was assigned to the Alabama - Tennessee border (Salem, Tennessee) for regrouping, refitting, and re-enforcing. The Fourth Alabama Cavalry under command of BG Joseph Roddy, CSA, was in Guntersville, Alabama, when he was reassigned to re-enforce LTG Wheeler CSA. They formed a line of march through Grant, Alabama, and up Maysville Road in front of Buckhorn Tavern enroute to Salem, Tennessee. In Huntsville, Alabama, BG Robert Mitchell, Union Forces, was in command of the Calvary in the area. He mounted up the Ninth Pennsylvania and formed a line of march from Huntsfille, Alabama, across Winchester Road in search of Wheeler who was rumored to be on the Tennessee border. Quite by accident Michell and Roddy ran into each other at the intersection of Maysville and Winchester Roads. A brief skirmish ensued, with no injuries or casualties on either side -- just pride. The Union forces entered the woods on the right, the Confederate forces on the left, awaiting the battle that never happened. Around midnight, the Confederate Calvary vacated the area. The Union Forces remained a day and half waiting for the battle, while Roddy reinforced Wheeler. Thus, the battle of Buckhorn Tavern. Buckhorn Tavern historically was a frequent stopping place for many dignitaries enroute to Alabama. It was a favorite of General Andrew Jackson when he went to fight the Creek Indians. Buckhorn Tavern was demolished in 1955, however, the buckhorn, which adorned the front of the building are now at Buckhorn High School, New Market, Alabama, the original of this paining is on loan and now available for $2000.00 framed. The Painted was originally commissioned by the Committee for the Re-enactment of the Battle of Buckhorn Tavern Commemoration.
Prints are available $ 30.00, signed and numbered, unframed.
Cadet Chapel, U. S. Military Academy, West Point, NY
The artist, Howard Massey is on the left. The owner, Lou, is on the right.
Commissioned by the Priory of Saint Patrick, SMOTJ.
Prints are available $100.00, signed and numbered, framed.
Proceeds from this watercolor are donated to charity.
Non Nobis Dominie Non Nobis
Three Knights Templar are depicted in full armor with their white mantels against a background of the Holy City and the road they protected to Jersuleum. During the early days of the Crusades, circa. 1100, The Knights Templar, poor Knights of Christ were often depicted as two Knights to a horse, as we see in the midground of the painting. Immediately behind the three Knights in the foreground stands a Knight Sargeant holding the Beauseant (the Knights Templar Battle Flag). "Non Nobis Dominie Non Nobis" meaning "Not Unto Us, O Lord, But Unto Thy Name Be Given Glory" was the Knights Templar oath and motto.
Prints are available $65.00, signed and numbered, unframed.
The original is available at a suggesed price of $3000.00, framed.
The Polk Places Maury County Tennessee
The Polk Family from North Carolina built placial mansions in the middle Tennessee area
circa. 1840 period. Four remain today. The mansions (now referred to as
anti-bellum homes) are as follows: Upper left: the ancestrial of the 11th President
of the United States, James K. Polk. Lower left: Rattle and Snap
Plantation owned by George W. Polk, son of General William Polk. Upper
right: Hamilton Place owned by Lucias E. Polk. Lower right:
St. John's at Ashwood, Polk Family Chapel built by LTG Leoaidous Polk. The
background is the 1836 US Flag and the first national Flag of the Confederacy.
The painting was commissioned by the Polk Memorial Association.
Prints are available $ 30.00, signed and numbered, unframed.
By Sartori Associates, May 2001