Year: 2009
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A hyperTOC for Moore’s Roster of North Carolina Troops
I’ve been on a fruitful run over the last couple of weeks looking into North Carolina soldiers who were at the battle of Sharpsburg. It began with the following haunting photograph from the Time-Life Voices volume on the battle of Fredericksburg … W.B. Whitaker (Time-Life’s Voices: Fredericksburg, courtesy Frances Honeycutt) He’s First Sergeant – later…
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CWArtillery gets new home
Bad news and good news. The bad news is that the famed website cwartillery.org is no more. The good news is that the core information – if not the lively, efficient design – is still available online. header, The Civil War Artillery Page, 1999 (C. Ten Brink) Unfortunately, original author Chuck Ten Brink can no…
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Know what this is?
Iron Antietam plaque A correspondent has asked us to identify this interesting object, recently purchased. She has heard it may have been something people put on houses that survived the War – perhaps especially in or near Sharpsburg. I’d appreciate hearing from anyone who can help identify it a little more surely. I don’t think…
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Antietam Illumination
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 – candles in small paper bags – distributed across…
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Connecticut Soldier KIA at Antietam honored in blog
I’ve just had an email from J.P. Rogers, a serving Army officer who is researching Private Oliver Cromwell Case, 8th Connecticut Infantry. Case was killed in action on 17 September 1862. JP has being doing this work since coming upon Case’s personal Bible in 1993, and has recently begun posting what he finds on a…
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So long, GeoCities
The end of an era. Yahoo! GeoCities, our free web site building service and community, is closing on October 26, 2009. Your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web After years of playing with Antietam battle information and biography on paper, then in spreadsheets and text files, I started putting it online in…
