Category Antietam
Antietam’s Aftermath in Shepherdstown, Virginia
In this presentation from the 2024 McCormick Civil War Institute Spring Conference, author Kevin Pawlak discusses Shepherdstown’s use after the battle of Antietam for a series of confederate hospitals. The video’s description reads, “Prince William County historic site manager Kevin Pawlak talked about how Shepherdstown, Virginia, became a hospital town in September 1862 to deal with the […]
Sacred Trust 2024
The 2024 Sacred Trust schedule is posted. Monday, July 1 Tickets Now Available: Evening Talk, 7 p.m. | Book Signing, 6-6:45 & 8-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 2 Tickets Now Available: Evening Talk, 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 3 Tickets Now Available: Evening Talk, 7 p.m. | Book Signing, 6-6:45 & 8-8:30 p.m. Saturday, July 6: Daytime Talks, 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 1:30 p.m. […]
Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College Day Four
Today was a day of battlefield tours. I was on “The Citizens’ War: Sharpsburg and Shepherdstown During the 1862 Maryland Campaign” with Professor Jim Broomall of Shepherd University. We began with some classroom time discussing the effects of war on the civilian population and what the civilians of Shepherdstown and Sharpsburg had to deal with […]
Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College Day Three
Day Three was chock full of Civil War learning. We began with three concurrent sessions. The first I attended was Professor Robert S. Levine of the University of Maryland College Park and “Frederick Douglass, Andrew Johnson, and the Failed Promise of Reconstruction.” He gave us some good excerpts from various Douglass speeches regarding Johnson and […]
Robert E. Lee Endured a Precipitous Reset in Maryland
This article comes from the Winter 2024 issue of America’s Civil War magazine. “Debate about the importance of the loss of Robert E. Lee’s Special Orders No. 191 to the outcome of the September 1862 Maryland Campaign has long revolved around the response of Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan upon reading the document found […]
Bridges at the Battle of Antietam 1862
Here, Bradley Gottfried gives a presentation at Pamplin Park on the battle of Antietam. The video’s description reads, “Historian Bradley Gottfried discussed a trio of strategic bridge battles at Antietam in 1862, the single bloodiest day of the Civil War. This was part of the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier’s annual event in […]
Observations on the Carnage of a Dreadful Day at Sharpsburg
This article by Robert Hodge appears in the winter 2024 issue of America’s Civil War magazine. “In 1866 Private Alexander Hunter, formerly of the 17th Virginia Infantry’s famed ‘Alexandria Riflemen,’ wrote an illuminating personal account of his Civil War experiences, ‘Four Years in the Ranks.’ That account was later used for Hunter’s popular ‘novel’ Johnny Reb […]
PreserveCast Podcast Episode 286: I Dread The Thought Of The Place With D. Scott Hartwig
This is an excellent discussion on the PreserveCast podcast between host Nicholas Redding and Scott Hartwig regarding Scott’s new book, I Dread the Thought of the Place, about the battle of Antietam. The episode’s description reads, “The Battle of Antietam is the single bloodiest day in American history, chronicled in D. Scott Hartwig’s new book […]
Civil War Talk Radio Episode 2004: I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign
In this terrific episode, host Professor Gerald Prokopowicz talks with Scott Hartwig about Scott’s new book closing out his study of the 1862 Maryland Campaign, I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign. Scott is an outstanding historian, and has a lot of good information […]
Antietam’s Gory Aftermath: How the Union Army’s Post-Battle Occupation Devastated Sharpsburg’s Civilians
This article comes to us from the March, 2023 issue of Civil War Times magazine. “By the time sunset closed the Battle of Antietam September 17, 1862, nearly 23,000 men were dead, wounded, captured, or missing, making the fight the bloodiest day in American military history. This grim statistic, nonetheless, tells only part of the […]
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