It would be easy to assume that all the historically significant details about the 1862 Battle of Antietam are well-known and frequently shared with the public by historians. After all, the battle is ...
One student marveled at the size of the jawbreaker, a mainstay of candy stores and Civil War soldiers' rations bags alike. “Can I eat it?” the student asked the man dressed as a Confederate soldier.
Editor’s Note: Last weekend, William Vandall made the trip to Maryland to commemorate the Battle of Antietam. This is an accounting of his visit. Over the weekend, a historic moment passed 160 years ...
Contributing significantly to Oxford's new academic series Pivotal Moments in American History and to the literature on the Civil War, McPherson convincingly establishes the Battle of Antietam as the ...
Antietam National Battlefield is a National Park Service protected area along Antietam Creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland which commemorates the American Civil War Battle of Antietam that occurred on ...
The Shippensburg Area Civil War Roundtable will host a meeting on Tuesday, March 18 at 7 p.m. at Christ United Methodist Church in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. Tom Clemens will present "Antietam's Less ...
Names such as Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Antietam and Shiloh roll off the tongue of Civil War historians. The Seven Days Battles - as deadly a week as any short of Gettysburg, and more momentous in many ...
For the better part of 160 years, military historians have been poring over the movements of Union and Confederate soldiers through southern Washington County in the waning days of the summer of 1862 ...
A new historical marker has been erected beside Antietam Elementary School to mark the site where, in December 1862, Civil War combatants crossed Selecman’s Ford on the Occoquan River to do battle.
On Saturday, the Town of South Kingstown paid tribute to Civil War brigadier general and native son Isaac Peace Rodman. The ceremony took place in conjunction with the rededication of the Soldiers and ...
SHARPSBURG, Md. — Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson leads the lineup of speakers marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Md. The midday ...
The tattered map shows where the bodies of 300 Confederates were buried, row on row just outside a sunken farm lane called Hog Trough Road where they fought that day. A few yards away, the graves of ...
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