2011-2012 Photo Contest > Adult Professional Division
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First Place, Adult Professional Division
Title: Unknown Soldier, No. 7
Photographer: Mary Rice, Brentwood, TN
Location: Confederate Civil War Cemetery at the Carnton Plantation in Franklin, TN
Photographer's Statement: Through the darkness of our past comes a light shining down on a single gravestone. Time has weathered the stone and weeds have grown 'round it, yet its presence reminds us that out of our tangled and bloodied past, stands civility.
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Second Place, Adult Professional Division
Title: Slaughter Pen
Photographer: Violet Clark, LaFollette, TN
Location: Stones River National Battlefield, Murfreesboro, TN
Photographer's Statement: Created with a vintage camera and lens, this image reflects the sadness that most of us feel when we visit these hallowed places. However, the sunburst reflects the hope that so many of these men died for: a free nation. -
Third Place, Adult Professional Division
Title: The General Beauregard's Grave/Shores of Fort Pickering
Photographer: Joe Sills, Memphis
Location: Mississippi River, Memphis
Description and Photographer's Statement: These bridge pillars are reminders of the naval Battle of Memphis, waged on the banks and waters of the mighty Mississippi in 1862. These mighty sentinels, built on the site of Fort Pickering, stand vigil over the sunken ships General Lovell, General Beauregard, General Thompson, and Platte Valley. During low water, the timbers of the General Beauregard may still be seen not far from where the modern riverboats dock. The bridge's span can be interpreted as an eternal arm of Fort Pickering, reaching out over the water to protect the men entombed.
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Honorable Mention, Adult Professional Division
Title: Inside Longstreet's Billet in Russellville, Hamblen County
Photographer: Randy Ball, Rogersville, TN
Location: Longstreet's rooms were in this beautifully restored house where his army spent the winter of 1863-64. A marker at the site reads: "Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's Corps occupied this area during the winter of 1863-64, with the mission of securing east Tennessee to the Confederacy. He and his staff occupied this house at that time. Brig. Gen. Kershaw's troops were to the north of the road, and McLaws' Division to the south. McLaws lived at Hayslope."
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Honorable Mention, Adult Professional Division
Title: Dinner Bell at Glen Leven Farm, Nashville
Photographer: Amiee Stubbs, Murfreesboro, TN
Description: The mansion at Glen Leven farm, just south of Nashville near Franklin, dates to 1857. Now under the stewardship of The Land Trust for Tennessee, the property was used as a hospital for Union troops during the War Between the States.