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Tag Archives: Battle of Antietam
Descendants of Revolutionary Riders in the Civil War
Most Americans know the story of Paul Revere and William Dawes and their midnight ride on April 18-19, 1775, through the Massachusetts countryside (Revere’s role is better know than Dawes’). I would wager that most readers of this blog know … Continue reading
Posted in Revolutionary War, Ties to the War
Tagged 15th Kentucky Infantry, 6th Wisconsin Infantry, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Perryville, Charlottesville, Colonel Paul Joseph Revere, Edward Hutchison Revere, George Payne Jouett, Iron Brigade, Jack Jouett, Joseph Revere, Paul Joseph Revere, Paul Revere, Rufus Dawes, The Iron Brigade, Thomas Jefferson, William Dawes
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Pennsylvania Militia Experience “An Awful Sight” at the Antietam Battlefield
In the Fall of 1862, the threat of invasion loomed large for the citizens of southcentral Pennsylvania. With General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia on their doorstep, on September 4, 1862, Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin issued a proclamation, … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Common Soldier, Regiments
Tagged 15th Pennsylvania Militia, Andrew Curtin, Augustus Bradford, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Shepherdstown, Chambersburg, Cumberland Valley Railroad, Dead of Antietam, Florence C. Biggert, Greencastle, Hagerstown, Harrisburg, John Reynolds, Keedysville, Maryland Campaign 1862, Pennsylvania Militia 1862, Pittsburgh PA, Robert Galway, Thomas Marshall Howe
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One Part Glory
The Summer of 1862 arguably featured the most intense fighting of the war in the Eastern Theater. The fighting began in the steamy swamps just outside Richmond as summer commenced and finished in the foggy, warmth of late summer along … Continue reading
Antietam: A Tactical Union Victory
The Battle of Antietam was a key turning point in the American Civil War and American history. In short, it turned back Robert E. Lee’s first campaign north of the Potomac River and led to the issuance of the Preliminary—and … Continue reading
Posted in Battles
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, antietam creek, Battle of Antietam, Battle of North Anna, Burnside Bridge, Dunker Church Plateau, Emancipation Proclamation, George B. McClellan, James Longstreet, Joseph Hooker, Middle Bridge, Pry's Ford, Robert E. Lee, Seven Days Battles, Snavely's Ford, Stephen D. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Upper Bridge
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Antietam: On the Eve of Battle
The evening of September 16 always draws my mind to the Antietam battlefield. 159 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. … Continue reading
A Chronology of the Confederacy’s 1862 Counterstrokes
Several months ago, I crossed an item off my Civil War bucket list: visiting the Perryville battlefield. While at the visitor center, I watched a video which put the Confederate invasion of Kentucky into the larger context of the war. … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Campaigns, Leadership--Confederate, Trans-Mississippi, Western Theater
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Baton Rouge, Battle of Chantilly, Battle of Charleston, Battle of Corinth, Battle of Harpers Ferry, Battle of Iuka, Battle of Munfordville, Battle of Perryville, Battle of Prairie Grove, Battle of Richmond, Battle of Second Bull Run, Battle of Second Manassas, Battle of South Mountain, Braxton Bragg, Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap, Don Carlos Buell, Earl Van Dorn, Edmund Kirby Smith, foreign intervention, France, Francis Herron, George B. McClellan, Great Britain, Great Britain and the Civil War, Henry Halleck, James Blunt, Jefferson Davis, John Breckinridge, John Pope, Kanawha Valley Campaign, Kentucky, Lord Palmerston, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Robert E. Lee, Russia, Sterling Price, Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Hindman, William Loring, William S. Rosecrans, Winchester
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Antietam’s Lower Field Revisited Part III: A Flawed Advance
Part of a Series General McClellan assigned the Ninth Corps, on the army’s left flank, the role of seizing the Rohrbach Bridge and creating a diversion to support the main attack on the Confederates to the north. The unsupported Ninth … Continue reading
Antietam’s Lower Field Revisited Part II: The Unsteady Ninth Corps at Antietam
The Ninth Corps had an odd relationship with the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Mirroring their involvement with the army was that of their best-known commander, Ambrose Burnside, who would eventually command the army, then serve with … Continue reading
Stolen War Department Marker Recovered at Antietam
Emerging Civil War welcomes guest author Matthew Chilton… On February 22, 2021, I noticed a familiar item – seemingly a ca. 1890’s War Department directional marker – was being advertised for an upcoming estate sale at a local auction in … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, National Park Service
Tagged 5th US Light Artillery, Antietam National Battlefield, Battery I, Battle of Antietam, D.H. Hill, General James Longstreet, National Park Service, Robert E. Lee, Stephen H. Weed, Stolen, War Department Markers, Weed's Battery
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