Category: building AotW
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21K milestone
I’ve been spending more time than I used to with each soldier I enter into the database, so it’s taken almost two years to add the last thousand. There are now just over 21,000 people-pages on Antietam on the Web. The latest additions are from the 5th Alabama Infantry, who suffered more than 150 casualties…
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2021: Antietam on the Web turns 25
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Antietam on the Web (AotW). My work online about the battle began in 1992 with a collection of text files, but I consider the birthday of AotW to be 1 November 1996 when I first launched the website. That first site on a free service called GeoCities consisted…
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Clickable, annotated Elliot burial map now on AotW
In 1864, building on information collected by others, civil engineer Simon G. Elliott documented the locations of more than 5,800 soldiers’ burials on the battlefield of Antietam on a map. His similar work for burials at Gettysburg has long been known, but a copy of his Antietam map lay largely unnoticed in the New York…
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The dead of Antietam 158 years later
On the occasion of the battle anniversary this month I’ve taken stock of the AotW database. There may be another lifetime’s work to do in other areas of the Campaign, but I now have a reasonably complete list of the troops who were killed and mortally wounded at Sharpsburg. The first of its kind anywhere,…
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19K milestone
It’s turning out to be another productive year for Antietam on the Web. Soldier profiles I added today for Parker’s Richmond Battery put the total number of individuals in the database over 19,000. More tomorrow.
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Maryland Campaign artillery pocket guide
New on AotW: a handy pocket guide to the field artillery pieces of each of the Confederate and Union batteries at Antietam and on the Maryland Campaign of 1862. In spreadsheet form, it shows counts by gun type for all 135 batteries present, and it’s available as a PDF and also as a link on…
