Saturday, October 30, 2010

Relic Hunters Strike the West Woods

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While wandering the West Woods earlier this month, I noticed a number of three to five inch deep holes that had been freshly dug. We are u...

Mary Grove Locher Cabin Rising

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Interior hearth of the 1840s addition. Thanks to the efforts of K.C. Kirkman and his Division of Cultural Resources crew, the Mary Grove ...
Friday, October 29, 2010

"For this our son and brother was dead and is alive again:" Oliver Wendell Holmes' Hunt for the Captain, Part 4

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Sometime between 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. on the morning of September 17, Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. advanced to the West Woods with his...
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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