<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a3599539-40fe-4fa1-8818-8b1c7ce7de19/65A2DD09-8FB4-4B94-A312-B2BA05B8D8B6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/whose-father-was-he-part-four/" href="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/whose-father-was-he-part-four/" style="font-size: 11px;">morris.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/whose-father-was-he-part-four/"><H2 class="entry-title">Whose Father Was He? (Part Four)</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/whose-father-was-he-part-four/"><P><EM>This is the fourth of five installments of “Whose Father Was He?” — an investigation into a photograph of three children found on the dead body of Amos Humiston, a fallen Union soldier, at Gettysburg in 1863. Part one can be read <A target="new" href="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/whose-father-was-he-part-one/">here</A>; part two <A target="new" href="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/whose-father-was-he-part-two/">here</A>; and part three <A target="new" href="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/whose-father-was-he-part-three/">here</A>.</EM></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/whose-father-was-he-part-four/">In 1870 Dr. Bourns hired Rosa J. Carmichael. The doctor wrote in his recommendation, “As a teacher and disciplinarian, Mrs. Carmichael has few equals, and she is a most assiduous and faithful worker, laboring often beyond her strength in school and out.” Indeed. She was the Cruella de Vil of the Homestead. Except she was no comic-book villain, she was the real thing. Rumors began that all was not well with the children. Locals noticed that they were no longer allowed to participate in Memorial Day activities like putting on a pageant and decorating graves.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/whose-father-was-he-part-four/">The orphans were instead forced to watch while “happy children” brought flowers to the various cemeteries </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/whose-father-was-he-part-four/">around town. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; 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