Category: the battlefield
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Corporal Farmer gets a new stone
This is the first time I’ve seen this in many years visiting Antietam National Cemetery: an obvious replacement headstone … an Ohioan in a row of Connecticut soldiers.
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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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Spring Symposium weekend at Sharpsburg
I made my semi-annual pilgrimage to Sharpsburg last week, focused on the Antietam Institute‘s Spring Symposium. For much more about the 2023 Symposium itself, look for Facebook and other social media posts from the Institute and some of my fellow attendees. I had some time while in the area, also, to get to the Antietam…
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National Cemetery serendipity
As I’ve done on my last several trips to the battlefield, I stopped to visit a few stones in Antietam National Cemetery this past week. Starting at the “back” – the south wall of the cemetery – I noticed particularly the rows of markers for the many unknown soldier buried there …
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Not in Antietam National Cemetery
Readers occasionally ask about this, and I can never find them when I want them, hence this list. It will evolve as I learn more.
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Pre- and post- Conference snaps
I had a tremendous time last weekend on and near the Antietam battlefield with my fellow Antietam Institute members at our first annual Fall Conference. Here we are at the New York State monument on Sunday morning. For online coverage of that successful event, see the Institute’s Facebook page and those of other attendees. I…
