Sunday, August 29, 2010

"I will keep this stained letter for them until peace comes back:" Oliver Wendell Holmes' Hunt for the Captain, Part 3

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Elizabeth Wright to James Wright, August 13, 1862. Letter found on battlefield by O.W. Holmes, Sr. Harvard Law School Library Digita...
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Friday, August 13, 2010

"I started as some faint resemblance…recalled the presence I was in search of:" Oliver Wendell Holmes' Hunt for the Captain, Part 2

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Col. Edward A. Wild By the evening of September 20, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and his traveling companions reached Middletown. [1]. There...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

"It was a pitiable sight...this great caravan of pilgrims:" Oliver Wendell Holmes' Hunt for the Captain, Part 1

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As the guns grew quiet on Antietam Ridge the evening of September 17th, the telegraph carried the news of the great struggle that day. Corre...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Recovering Fence Lines

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Sometime in the 1930s an aerial photograph was made of the battlefield looking eastward in the direction of the New York monument and the Du...
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Saturday, May 1, 2010

The Cope-Carmen Map Revision of 1908

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Recently, the Library of Congress posted on its American Memory Project website the 1908 revised Cope-Carman maps of the "Atlas of the ...
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Sunday, February 7, 2010

"No place for artillery:" McCarthy's Battery (Richmond Howitzers) in the West Woods

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This post opens a series on Confederate artillery units in and adjacent to the West Woods. In the morning phase of the battle (5:30 to 8:30)...
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

"I shall never Cease to mourn his death"--Letter of Lemuel Stetson to His Sons

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An earlier post (November 11, 2009) chronicled the journey of Lemuel Stetson to Sharpsburg to bring his son, John L. Stetson, home. John St...
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