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Tag Archives: Antietam National Cemetery
Death at Antietam: Friends to the End
ECW welcomes back guest author Cal Schoonover… The Civil War impacted Wisconsin’s people from the beginning of the war until the end on April 9, 1865. Wisconsin had no shortage of volunteers during the early part of the war; however, … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Common Soldier
Tagged 21st Virginia Infantry, 6th Wisconsin, Antietam National Cemetery, Army of the Potomac, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Second Manassas, Franklin Gerlaugh, Iron Brigade, John Gibbon, Sharpsburg, William P. Black, Wisconsin, Wisconsin in the Civil War
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They Fell On The Fields Of Antietam
Emerging Civil War welcomes back Kristen M. Pawlak (Trout) On the fields to the east of the small western-Maryland hamlet of Sharpsburg and interposed between the Potomac River and Antietam Creek, just under four thousand Federal and Rebel troops lay … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Common Soldier
Tagged "orange grays", 108th New York Infantry, 6th North Carolina, Antietam National Cemetery, Battle of Antietam, burial, Captain Houston Lowrie, Confederate cemetery, george washburn, Hood's division, Kristen Pawlak, Kristen Trout, legacy, miller cornfield, Sergeant Miles Casey, Sunken Road
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McClellan’s Memorial Day Visit to Antietam
“Only once a year, the comrades of the Grand Army march in sad procession to place flowers on the graves of those who died, side by side with the living, in defence of their country and their homes. This is … Continue reading
An Interview with Ted Alexander (part two)
part two Ted Alexander, the legendary historian at Antietam National Battlefield, retired at the beginning of January after a thirty-five-year career with the National Park Service. I had the chance to sit down with him just before he retired, and … Continue reading
The Fallen Generals of Antietam
On September 17, 1862, outside the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland, and along the banks of Antietam Creek, Union and Confederate soldiers fought, bled, and died. That early autumn day is still the bloodiest single day—with 23,000 Americans as casualties—in American … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Monuments, National Park Service
Tagged Antietam, Antietam National Cemetery, Confederate Cemetery Hagerstown, Connecticut History in Bronze and Granite, Connecticut Monuments, George B. Anderson, Hagerstown, Isaac Rodman, Israel Richardson, Joseph Mansfield, Lawrence Branch, Maryland, MD, William Starke
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Disease: A Tale of Two Regiments (Part 1)
We are happy to welcome back guest author Jim Sundman On October 1, 1862, Corporal Joseph Couse of the 107th New York regiment died of “brain fever” while his unit was encamped on Maryland Heights across the Potomac River from … Continue reading
