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This weekend featured some living history re-enactors portraying S.D. Lee’s Artillery – the Confederate guns posted at Antietam at the spot [...]
June 10, 2012
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<A fuller understanding of the larger context of this battle would be gained from reading these remarks in conjunction with yesterday’s post [...]
June 9, 2012
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On this Sunday, June 8th of 1862, Stonewall Jackson was enjoying the Christian Sabbath, but was nearly captured by Union cavalry in Port [...]
June 8, 2012
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“The Black Knight of the Confederacy” Cavalry commander Colonel Turner Ashby died in battle on this date in 1862 as part of a rear-guard [...]
June 6, 2012
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151 years ago saw the early days of the Civil War lapping upon our doorsteps here in Washington County, Maryland. Again, this is material I would [...]
June 4, 2012
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I spent the day yesterday in the Shenandoah Valley – particularly with a goal of bouncing around the Cross Keys and Port Republic [...]
June 3, 2012
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One of the more colorful generals and personalities that fought at the Battle of Antietam was General John Gibbon of North Carolina. As an 1847 [...]
June 2, 2012
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June 1, 1862 It was around noon on this date that Robert E. Lee took command of the (soon to be named) Army of Northern Virginia. (So I have [...]
June 1, 2012
Enfilading Lines 