Monday, February 3, 2014

"When we got to that fence and laid down a short while...": Callom Jones and the 15th Virginia in the West Woods

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Jones' references plotted on the Cope/Carman 1908 map. 9:00 Map. A: "we had to get over a fence;" B: "to our right fr...
Saturday, February 1, 2014

Lost Roads of the Maryland Campaign: Part 3

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That the village of Keedysville is mentioned in the Official Records no less than 52 times is enough to demonstrate the importance of this p...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

"I was left for some time within the battery:" John Sedgwick and Woodruff's Battery at Antietam

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Major-General John Sedgwick Library of Congres s "Headquarters 6th Army Corps, Culpeper, October 1, 1863. To George Woodruff, Es...
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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