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		<title>Antietam Illumination</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most moving experiences you can have anywhere is driving through the battlefield during the annual Antietam Memorial Illumination.  This year the tradition returns on Saturday, December 5th to the Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Maryland.
On that evening, volunteers will light over 23,000 luminaries &#8211; candles in small paper bags &#8211; distributed across the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Near anniversary 2009</title>
		<link>http://behind.aotw.org/2009/09/20/near-anniversary-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday was another great day to be at the Antietam National Battlefield Park.

It began early for me with an uneventful drive up the National Pike route, and a  SHAF meeting in Keedysville which introduced promise of more website improvements and some exciting initiatives for the organization for the near future.
After a photo-op at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antietam: Blogger&#8217;s Tours 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s below freezing and we&#8217;ve seen snow flurries here in Northern Virginia. A good time to burrow in and wish for Spring.  Or at least for warmer battlefield tramping weather.
I am inspired to plan some serious hikes by the news that the new Three Farms Trail is open at Antietam National Battlefield. Roulette, Newcomer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the trail of the Corn Exchange Regiment</title>
		<link>http://behind.aotw.org/2008/10/05/on-the-trail-of-the-corn-exchange-regiment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[146 years to the day after the historical events, a lucky group of us tracked the unlucky 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers to the places and views of the Battle of Shepherdstown Ford (20 September 1862). Under the capable guidance of Dr Tom Clemens and members of the Shepherdstown Battlefield Preservation Association (SBPA), we waded the Potomac, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stalking the wild model 1857 12-pound light gun-howitzer</title>
		<link>http://behind.aotw.org/2008/09/14/stalking-the-wild-model-1857-12-pound-light-gun-howitzer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Mannie sneaks up on the prey
I drove through the fog to Sharpsburg yesterday, much earlier than is usual for me to be up on a Saturday.  Arrived too early for the ANB Visitor&#8217;s Center to be open, in fact, but in time to catch Mr. Mumma cutting blossoms to place inside. Ranger Mannie was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get to the best battlefield park on the planet</title>
		<link>http://behind.aotw.org/2008/09/08/get-to-the-best-battlefield-park-on-the-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still no time to blog, more&#8217;s the pity.  Life intervenes. But I&#8217;m making time for a couple of trips to Sharpsburg in this Anniversary month.  I hope some of you can join me.
Next weekend &#8211; the 13th and 14th &#8211; will be the biggest of the year at the Park.  The Park [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side trip to Fox&#8217;s Gap</title>
		<link>http://behind.aotw.org/2008/04/20/side-trip-to-foxs-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was still plenty of daylight left as I was returning from Sharpsburg last weekend, so I took a rare detour from Alt-40 over to Fox&#8217;s Gap.

The glorious charge of the 23rd and 12th Ohio Volunteers &#8230;(1864, Library of Congress)
There are a pair of interpretive signs, two monuments, and a regimental tribute at the spot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mud of our fathers</title>
		<link>http://behind.aotw.org/2008/04/13/mud-of-our-fathers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or: another great day on the battlefield.
I was glad to be part of a small group of SHAF volunteers and Park Natural Resources guys planting tree seedlings along Antietam Creek yesterday.
It was in a part of the Park I&#8217;d never visited before: a strip of low land along the west side of the stream  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secret no more</title>
		<link>http://behind.aotw.org/2008/04/05/secret-no-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ranger John Hoptak reports being
finally ready, officially, to launch my effort to restore the 48th PA Monument at Antietam by replacing the sword missing from the statue of General Nagle
Get the details from the supporting A Monumental Task blog, and find your way to help this righteous project succeed, won&#8217;t you?
Happy birthday, General.
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		<title>I already get 5 bars &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://behind.aotw.org/2008/03/17/i-already-get-5-bars/</link>
		<comments>http://behind.aotw.org/2008/03/17/i-already-get-5-bars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The site of the single bloodiest day in American history is under siege — threatened by a 120-foot cellphone tower, says a preservation group.
This year&#8217;s Endangered Battlefield Report from the Civil War Preservation Trust leads off with the story of a planned cellphone tower for Antietam. If you read newspapers you&#8217;ve seen many [...]]]></description>
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