Another of the old battle-marked oak trees that stood along Mansfield avenue was cut down by the battlefield workers. This tree stood alone along Mansfield avenue and undoubtedly sheltered more than one soldier during the battle.
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A talking point that we sometimes make when discussing the Battle of Antietam with visitors is the number and the impact of West Point officers at the battle and the idea that officers who studied at the Academy and then served together in the regular army took up arms...
A talking point that we sometimes make when discussing the Battle of Antietam with visitors is the number and the impact of West Point officers at the battle and the idea that officers who studied at the Academy and then served together in the regular army took up arms...
I still have not seen the film, but a friend who has tells me this is how yours truly shows up in the credits at the end of Saving Lincoln: Now my life is complete.
Yet another new release from Savas Beatie is from the prolific team of Chris Mackowski and Kris White, Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front: The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church, May 3, 1863. Most of the visitors to this website are likely aware that the Battle of Chancellorsville was not fought solely on the National Park […]
Two different groups of people at Antietam this past week have reminded me of my earlier visits to the Battlefield before I moved to this area in 1994.
The Boy from Harmony – I grew up in a rural farm country community in northwest New Jersey called “Harmony Township.” While a 7th grade student at Harmony Elementary School, my history teacher gave an assignment to select a battle of the Civil War and...
I had a chance to make arrangements to be in Vicksburg on the exact dates of sesquicentennial events in a few weeks – with a conference I could have attended just before that time in New Orleans. But I chose not to, as honestly, I’d rather not deal with crowds on battlefields … even as those are times with some of the best programs.
But living close to northern Virginia, I did choose to go on the actual middle day date of the Second Battle of Winchester. No crowds at all! In fact I...
I am humbled and gratified to have received over 90,000 visits to Antietam Voices and 50,000 visitors to South From the North Woods. I have been really busy these days and sadly have neglected my two friends but I will be back soon. I have been doing lots of research on West Pointers at Antietam, the Regular Army artillery batteries, and of course my quote collection as well. Please stay tuned and thanks for your...
I am humbled and gratified to have received over 50,000 visitors to South From the North Woods and over 90,000 visits to Antietam Voices. I have been really busy these days and sadly have neglected my two friends but I will be back soon. I have been doing lots of research on West Pointers at Antietam, the Regular Army artillery batteries, and of course my quote...
Over all the years since the Battle of Antietam, various branches of the United States Military have used the battlefield for teaching and training in leadership, strategy, logistics, etc. From time to time, our Antietam Battlefield Guides organization has assisted, and that is a great thrill for all of us who have ever participated.
But more often, Army or Marine groups come on their own with their own instructors. It is not at all a rare experience to see a busload or two of young...
How often do you see the same publisher offer two very different interpretations of an event at practically the same time? That’s what Savas Beatie has presented with Calamity at Chancellorsville: The Wounding and Death of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, by Mathew Lively. The main variance from the tale as told by Chris Mackowski and […]
Copperheads, Vallandigham, and the Trump Card of Lincoln
On this date of June 12th in 1863, President Lincoln wrote the first of two letters to New York and Ohio Democrats – letters reprinted in hundreds of newspapers and produced into a 500,000-copy pamphlet – discrediting the cause of Clement Vallandigham and the Copperhead faction in the mind and eye of the public. And the soon-to-come battlefield victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg sealed the deal.
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