Category: building AotW
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Blog turns 20, gets facelift
This blog has had the same design since my first post in March 2006, and this 20th anniversary was a good time to spruce it up. 20 years is like 100 in internet-years.
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Participant #23,000: Clay Esshom
We’ve just passed another milestone in the collection of Campaign participants at Antietam on the Web – now over 23,000 individuals in the database. Number 23,000 is Private Clay Esshom of Company A, 14th Indiana Infantry, who survived a fearful gunshot through his body in combat at Antietam on 17 September 1862 – then a…
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#22,000
The Antietam on the Web database is now up to 22,000 individuals. The entry getting us to that number is for the man under this impressive stone in Colchester, CT: Henry A Ransom, late Corporal, 8th Connecticut Infantry. He was seriously wounded in the knee at Antietam in September 1862 and troubled by it for…
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Sgt Charles Broomhall at Antietam
Almost exactly 20 years ago Carolyn Ivanoff shared with me (and AotW) her research about and transcription of the wartime diary of Charles D. M. Broomhall, Sergeant in the 124th Pennsylvania Infantry, describing his experience on the Maryland Campaign. On my visit to the battlefield last Friday morning I saw this wayside for the first…
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New map and a minor re-org
It had been nearly 20 years since I last added a battle map segment to Antietam on the Web, and now I’ve put up two new ones in two days. I felt the call to do the first one as I began a deep dive into the men of the 7th Maine Infantry [previous blog…
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The charge of the 7th Maine at Antietam
One of the saddest stories of Antietam is that of the vain heroism of the 7th Maine Infantry on the Piper Farm at about 5 pm on 17 September 1862.
