Category: building AotW
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Another AotW milestone
We’re having a great year collecting soldiers here at AotW. You have a lot of reading to catch up on. Lieutenant John A Steel, 106th Pennsylvania Infantry was #18,000, added today.
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Dead List update
I’ve been pushing hard the last few months to get more soldiers into the database on AotW, focusing particularly on those who died on the Campaign. As a result I’ve posted an update to the list of The Dead of the Maryland Campaign of 1862. It’s now up to just over 6,300 people out of…
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(More) after-action reports
I’ve been transcribing and posting some post-battle reports to AotW this week; most were written by Federal medical officers and I’ll write about them later, once complete, but today, thanks to a timely lookup in the Supplement to the OR by Dr Tom Clemens, I’ve added a report from Colonel William Gibson, 48th Georgia Infantry,…
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The Antietam Roster: looking at the data
I am pleased to report that I’ve just added the 16,000th person to the Antietam on the Web (AotW) database. There’s much more to the AotW website than people, of course, but they’re what keep me going at it year in and year out. 16,000 is a nice round number and perhaps large enough to…
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Interactive Orders of Battle for Antietam
I’ve added a new tool on AotW: an interactive tree diagram display for the Orders of Battle (OOB) of each of the main armies in Maryland. You can click any “node” (dot) on the diagram to drill down further into an Army Corps/Wing, Division, or Brigade at Sharpsburg. Each of the unit names is also…
