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As a second account of the experiences of the Mud March, today I turn again to the writing of the historian of the 76th NY – A.P. Smith. I [...]
January 22, 2013
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This writing is from the book of Doubleday staff officer George F. Noyes – getting near the end of his book and his service time. As I had [...]
January 21, 2013
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On this date of January 20, 1863 – 150 Years ago today – the famous Mud March of General Burnside commenced. Stung by his futile failures in [...]
January 20, 2013
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As I have oft written, Abner Doubleday is a Civil War character of particular interest to me. It was about this time of January 150 years ago [...]
January 16, 2013
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On this date of January 13, 1863, authority was officially granted to white officer Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson to establish the all-black [...]
January 13, 2013
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For most Civil War enthusiasts, the predominant images are of land battles. If much thought is given to naval conflicts, probably the battle of [...]
January 11, 2013
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Yesterday I ventured into Washington to visit again at the Lincoln Summer Cottage, known to be the place that, in 1862, President Lincoln worked [...]
January 4, 2013
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On this date of January 1, 1863, President Lincoln would give his signature to one of the greatest documents in American history. One would think [...]
January 1, 2013
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Our park historian at Antietam often speaks of the “thousand mile front” of the Civil War in 1862. It is a point well stated. There is more [...]
December 31, 2012
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2012 will go down as a great year for visitors to the Antietam Battlefield and Washington County, Maryland. An article in our local newspaper, [...]
December 30, 2012
Enfilading Lines 