ECW Guest Post: A Tale of Two Monitors
We are happy to welcome Anthony(Tony) DellaRocca. Tony has put together two excellent websites. One site is devoted to the 127th New York, the other is devoted to the 84th New York (14th Brooklyn). Take a moment to stop by Tony’s sites. Thank you Tony for your contribution to ECW. So much of Civil War […]
Read more...Question of the Week #3
“Which battle was more of a turning point in the war in the east, Antietam or Gettysburg?”
Read more...Antietam, October 3, 1862
The Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, but sixteen days later bodies, now in a terrible state of putrification, were still lying on the ground. Every battle since Bull Run had increased the number of casualties, and Antietam topped the charts of the death toll. One in every four men who fought […]
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