Monday, December 30, 2013

Lost Roads of the Maryland Campaign: Part 2

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Google Earth view of Maryland Route 65 as it runs past the west side of the Park. In the early 1960s highway planners laid out Maryland...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Lost Roads of the Maryland Campaign--Part 1

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The maps and photographs in this post are the first installment in a series of occasional posts on "lost roads" of the Mar...
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Sunday, December 8, 2013

December 7, 2013 | 17: 29 | 37 Degrees F. | iPhone 5

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Sunday, November 24, 2013

"We knew that the devil would be to play somewhere on our lines:" William H. Andrews and the First Georgia in the West Woods

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Sometime in the late 1890s William H. Andrews, a private in the First Georgia Regulars wrote to the Antietam Battlefield Board describing hi...
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

"Resting awhile but not left alone:" Thomas H. Eaton and the 72nd Pennsylvania in the West Woods.

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Phoenixville April 1st 1905. Gen E. A. Carman_ Dear General In answer to your favor of the 29th inst. In looking over my Diary...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

"We now cross the Hagerstown Pike into the West Woods...the men in the best of spirits:" Thomas H. Eaton and the 72nd Pennsylvania in the West Woods

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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 ...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

"There were very few points of the Confederate line that these batteries could not reach:" Twenty Pounder Parrotts and the West Woods

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Each colored segment equals 1,000 yards. The vector illustrated here is drawn  on the Cope/Carman Map (1908 edition) for 9:00...