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On The Eve of Antietam - 162-Years-Ago by Kevin Pawlak The Eve of Antietam: 162 Years Ago - Emerging Civil War The evening of September 16 always draws my mind to the Antietam battlefield One hundred and sixty-two years ago tonight, Union and Confederate soldiers settled down for a tense night around Sharpsburg, Maryland In some cases, they lay within earshot of one another After darkness ended a
First time visiting Antietam | Travelers Companion - Visit Historic Sites Antietam is my favorite because as mentioned here it hasn't been "Tourist-ized" Monocacy National Battlefield isn't that far away either and is one of those places that if you don't know it's there you wouldn't know it's there Shepherdstown is a nice quiet little town too Very laid back Walk the fields if you are up for it too
Cornfield at Antietam | Civil War Games Miniatures There is an account in a book called "Texans at Antietam," that references the 13 dead and wounded Confederates who were found around the flag when it was retrieved by Union soldiers in the Cornfield
Brief diary account of Antietam | Antietam Sharpsburg Some time ago I transcribed the diary of Pierre Clausse [aka Peter Close], Private, Co I, Bucktail Regiment, 13th Regt PA Reserves, for 1862 The entries are brief, sometimes cryptic, sometimes illegible, and all in French He writes about Antietam, and the events immediately before it
Antietam Sharpsburg - American Civil War Forums Antietam Sharpsburg The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties
The Organisation and Strength of the Cavalry at Antietam During Antietam Buford move forward with Hooker, and exercise command over the cavalry on the Federal right As the only other cavalry general with the army, Pleasanton took command of the Cavalry Division almost by default
First time visiting Antietam | Travelers Companion - Visit Historic . . . The easy part of Antietam is the chronology of the day's fighting really went from north to south so you can start in the north and move your way south through out the day and I would do just that The places you want to get out of the car and explore are: (1) The corn field, (2) The Dunkard Church to the rear and west trail
Grove Farm | Antietam Sharpsburg As I'm doing research for my next novel, I've been looking at the Grove Farm just west of Sharpsburg Does anybody have any solid information about the family who lived there, the doctors who worked there, the units that had soldiers housed there, the diseases which ran through the house, what
NF - Any book suggestions or the Battle of Antietam | Civil War Books . . . While not about the Battle of Antietam, I enjoyed "To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862" by D Scott Hartwig This is the first of 2 volumes, taking us to the eve of battle The second will be about the Battle of Antietam This was first published in 2012
Antietam’s Surgeon Gripping Account! | Medical Care ANTIETAM SURGEON: "THE BARNYARD AND GARDEN WERE CROWDED WITH WOUNDED" — Thanks to the greatness of eBay, I recently purchased an 1894 copy in book form of the poem surgeon Nathan Mayer read at the dedication of the 16th Connecticut monument in the 40-Acre Cornfield at Antietam It's one of those things we Antietam nerds do