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Tag Archives: Joseph Mansfield
Book Review: The Cornfield, Antietam’s Bloody Turning Point
Alongside Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle and Shiloh’s Hornet’s Nest, the fighting in David Miller’s Cornfield on the Antietam battlefield ranks as one of the toughest Civil War landscapes to make any sense of. It should then come as no surprise that … Continue reading
Chambersburg Seminar Review
This past weekend I spoke at the Ed Bearss Civil War Seminar in Chambersburg. This is part of a series of events coordinated by Ted Alexander and the Chambersburg (Pa) Chamber of Commerce. More info is here: http://civilwarseminars.org/. For those … Continue reading
Mexican-American War 170th: “Incessantly By Day, But With Alacrity, Our Troops Piled the Pick and Shovel”
Shortly after reveille on April 7, 1846, American soldiers with shovels and pickaxes began construction of a permanent installation on the north side of the contested Rio Grande. Brig. Gen. Zachary Taylor, commanding the force sent the previous month from … 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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