Tag Archives: The Cornfield

Antietam Anniversary in the Soldiers’ Words

Posted on September 17, 2020 by Kevin Pawlak

At 7 a.m. every September 17, the National Park Service holds a program in David Miller’s cornfield, forever after immortalized as The Cornfield, to commemorate the opening of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American military history. … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Cornfield, Antietam’s Bloody Turning Point

Posted on April 3, 2020 by Kevin Pawlak

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 →

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Symposium Spotlight: Ryan Quint and the Cornfield at Antietam

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Emerging Civil War

Ryan Quint, Emerging Civil War’s Book Review Editor, will make his second appearance at the Emerging Civil War Symposium. It seems that some of the most simply named places on Civil War battlefields, witnessed the most horrific moments of the … Continue reading →

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