Year: 2008
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Virtual blog
Dang. I’ve been under a rock the last two months. Proof? How many blogs are there with “Antietam” in the name? Well now there are two. Man-about-Sharpsburg Stephen Recker has begun his own in conjunction with his Virtual Antietam site. Among his many other connections to the battle, Stephen is an infamous collector of related…
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Secret no more
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’t you? Happy birthday,…
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Whisky affects him as usual
Private Patrick Hughes, 4th New York Volunteers (by E. Stauch, 1863, collection NMHM) I hope Patrick felt as good as his expression suggests … his wound looks awful in this vivid image. He was painted propped up in a bed at Mount Pleasant Hospital in Washington DC in January 1863 shortly before his discharge from…
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I already get 5 bars …
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’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’ve seen many lead…
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Behind the curtain
Buried below the fold here on the blog are a number of fantastic discussions growing from older biographical posts. As site owner I can see these conversations as they happen, but I’m not sure either of our other readers notice. Hence this pop-up flag. That, and I’m not getting any writing of my own done…
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12th Virginia Infantry in Maryland
The sad story of the officers and men of the 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment of late 1862 is typical for a number of the tattered units of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) who were at Sharpsburg that September. The Crater (c. 1866, J. Elder) The Fourth Battalion as it left Petersburg on the…
