Walking the West Woods

George W. Maxwell, 72nd Pennsylvania, Company A On October 8, Elizabeth Maxwell wrote to Lieutenant Commanding John Holahan of the 72nd Penn...

What follows is an account of the excursion of the Philadelphia Brigade Association to its Antietam Monument on September 17, 1906.  "A...

Phoenixville April 1st 1905. Gen E. A. Carman_ Dear General In answer to your favor of the 29th inst. In looking over my Diary...

Detail from the Cope/Carman 1908 map, 9 to 9:30 a.m. view.  The map shows the positions of the 125th Pa. and Monroe's Battery and ...

From the Philadelphia Inquirer, October 18, 1862. "Died. Park--On Saturday evening, of wounds received at the battle of Antietam, Lie...

The May 21, 2009 post titled "West Woods Missing: Some Preliminary Research" listed members of the 72nd Pennsylvania that went mis...

Pennsylvania State Archives card for David Carter, 72nd Pennsylvania (see below) In an earlier post I listed six members of the 72nd Pen...

Over the summer I posted a note regarding the location of the left of Howard's Philadelphia Brigade in the West Woods. All accounts show...

What was the position of Oliver O. Howard's brigade of Sedgwick's division in the West Woods? Howard's brigade was the third of ...

In an earlier entry I listed six members of the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment who went missing in the West Woods on September 17. At t...

On September 20, 1862 Brig. Gen. Oliver O. Howard filed his official report "of the part taken by General Sedgwick's division"...