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On The Eve of Antietam - 162-Years-Ago by Kevin Pawlak The Eve of Antietam: 162 Years Ago - Emerging Civil War The evening of September 16 always draws my mind to the Antietam battlefield One hundred and sixty-two 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 After darkness ended a
Best books about Antietam? - American Civil War Forums Antietam: The Soldiers Battle by John Michael Priest is one amazing book and one of the best books on Antietam as is To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 by D Scott Hartwig
Courage in the Cornfield at Antietam | Antietam Sharpsburg Courage in the Cornfield at Antietam At Antietam on Sept 17, 1862, an awful moment occurred when heavy Confederate artillery fire from the vicinity of the Dunker Church greeted the 90th Pennsylvania Infantry as it moved into the infamous Cornfield The men and officers of the 90th advanced into a hail of rebel infantry fire and became hotly
Pogues Battery (Rockbridge Artillery) at Antietam Captain William Thomas Poague led the battery during the Antietam Campaign Born in Rockbridge County on December 20, 1835 A graduate of Washington College, Pogue was a lawyer in Missouri when the war began He came home and joined the Rockbridge Artillery as a 2nd Lieutenant By April 1862, he had been promoted to lead the battery
About those cigars. . . | Antietam Sharpsburg There are a number of threads in the Antietam Sharpsburg Forum at CWT that discuss the Lost Order The facts about the discovery of the order are pretty well known and properly credited to the two soldiers of the 27th Indiana It is known that the copy of the order that was lost was issued to D H Hill Because of changing nature of the Confederate command at the time two copies of the
Brief diary account of Antietam | Antietam Sharpsburg | American . . . Some time ago I transcribed the diary of Pierre Clausse [aka Peter Close], Private, Co I, Bucktail Regiment, 13th Regt PA Reserves, for 1862 The entries are brief, sometimes cryptic, sometimes illegible, and all in French He writes about Antietam, and the events immediately before it
First time visiting Antietam | Travelers Companion - Visit Historic . . . Antietam is my favorite because as mentioned here it hasn't been "Tourist-ized" Monocacy National Battlefield isn't that far away either and is one of those places that if you don't know it's there you wouldn't know it's there Shepherdstown is a nice quiet little town too Very laid back Walk the fields if you are up for it too