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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
A Woman Dead in the Cornfield with the Confederates | Antietam . . . After the Battle of Antietam, while burying the Confederate dead, a Union burial party found an unidentified female Confederate soldier In his memoir, Private Mark Nickerson of the 10th Massachusetts Infantry wrote:
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
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
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
Antietam | Contemporary Photos of Sites Events Antietam Creek is stocked with trout for the fly fishermen upstream Antietam is considered polluted by farm waste so I think some of the other streams in the area are generally preferred for fly fishing
Antietam - Advance of Sedgwicks Division of Sumners II Corps This is the first of a series of posts that will consider the advance of Sedgwick's Division of the Union II Corps at Antietam Sedgwick's Division advanced across the Antietam on 17th September Each regiment marched with companies in the 'column by flank' formation This was a new formation
A Walk Through The Field Hospitals, Antietam, September 1862 The shattered Sherrick property, house, outbuildings and barn were filled with wounded by the time Alexander Gardner arrived three days post battle Intent is only to give a September, 1862 eye witness view of post battle Antietam, Maryland Overwhelmed, understaffed Army medical staff did
Antietam Eyewitness Accounts - American Civil War Forums With the Fall Muster at Antietam*, coming next month I thought I might post a few of the eyewitness accounts of veterans of the “Bloodiest Day in American History” alongside the banks of Antietam Creek Regards David FALSE FLAG OF TRUCE AT ANTIETAM “Cleve Rowan, Campbellsville, Miss , writes