Year: 2009
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Sesquicentennial kick-off at HF
The 150th anniversary of John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry is next Friday, October 16th. There are a range of activities planned in commemoration. See more from the HF Park page and one from the Visitor’s Bureau. I smell a War coming … Illustration from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 5 November 1859 (Library of…
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Antietam vets go West
G.A. Custer (c. 1865, Library of Congress) I’ve just been reading a brand-new edition of Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, out just last month from Sterling Publishing. It’s a beautifully packaged and illustrated version of the landmark 1970 work, which looks at the West from 1860-90. I recommend it highly. While the…
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Near anniversary 2009
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…
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A hyperTOC for New York in the War of the Rebellion
Frederick Phisterer's New York in the War of the Rebellion (3rd Edition, 6 volumes, Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1909-12) is probably the single best resource on New York military units and officers in the Civil War. It is two other things also, which are exciting to the likes of me: it’s beautifully displayed online…
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John Westbrook at Antietam
There are half a dozen unfinished posts waiting in the queue for this (very occasional) blog, but I am prompted to actually publish one at last by some fascinating email correspondence from Marianne Tierney, whose great-great-grandfather John Westbrook you see here. Marianne and her cousin Art Van Allsburg have collected and have shared some family…
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March battlefield hikes
The Park has announced three Ranger-led hikes in March. Of particular note is Sunday, 22nd, Nicodemus Heights – This battlefield hike will begin near Tour Stop # 2, The North Wood, at 1:15 pm. The hike will focus on the role played by the Confederate artillery on the northern end of the field, including a…
