Gerry: Rob's the guy I am thinking of also. Rob used to come to the Pennypacker Mills CW event until his business just took off. He really knows his stuff. ...
Sharpsburg Heritage Day schedule Saturday, September 17, 2005 9:00 am ? 4:30 PM All Day: Information Table at Square Town History Display at Town Hall ...
A couple of new items posted on Antietam NPS website: September 16, 7pm "The Army of the Potomac at Antietam and Beyond" - speaker Jeffry Wert is the author of...
From HAGERSTOWN HERALD-MAIL: "Hiking through history uphill: Trail at Antietam to provide real-life experience" by The Associated Press The final attack on the...
Will Kevin Rawlings please contact me (or if someone has his email could you send it to me please?). Kevin: If you are out there, Pennypacker Mills is trying...
From Hagerstown HERALD-MAIL (August 2, 2005)... Heritage Day returning to Sharpsburg Sharpsburg Heritage Day will return to Main Street in September, and the...
The Sharpsburg Historical Society is raffling one of Mort Kunstler's best-known prints relating to the Battle of Antietam, the "Sharpsburg War Council." The...
I got an email from Ted Alexander yesterday inviting me to do a signing at the Antietam Book Fair on the 16th of July. I hope those of you in the neighborhood...
I started reading Rafuses' new McClellan book and must say I am enjoying it. It is almost as if he is taking a contrarian view toward every negative story...
Yes, that had a lot to do with it. In fact, Lee never anticipated that the garrison would hold out (the untenable nature of the place was well known to both...
Some recent comments got me to thinking. One member suggests that all the "Conventional Wisdom" is that McClellan was a poor general, and all , or most, of...
Dear Tom, IIRC, the post and rail fences were built very sturdily to keep livestock from wandering off the fields onto the Turnpike, no? Very respectfully, G E...
I have not missed the boat or cannot see the forest for the trees or any of the bunk. I would not expect anyone to mention the amount of monuments on the...
When a group of which I was part wanted to place a marker at Antietam, learned that we could not, we decided instead to donate a copy of an index to all...
Dan Sickles (ok, maybe not the best character witness) once was asked if he was upset that he did not have a statue of himself at Gettysburg. He said the...
Hi Folks, I had an interesting question by email this morning, and I'm passing it along to you for comment, too (with permission). My quick response follows...
I was asked by Cricket Bauer, Brian Pohanka's wife to post this: The public is invited to a memorial service for Brian Pohanka at 2 pm, Thursday, June 23rd, at...
As to "the way it really happened" conversation -- here's my view. That is true of almost EVERYTHING we know about individuals in history. Did the Robert E....
From Hagerstown Herald-Mail: Nearly three years ago, Frank Artz said he would be willing to host a re-enactment of the Battle of Antietam again in a few years...
I'm doing some research on an etirely different subject and came across a reference to the 1944 OCS graduating class at Fort Benning, GA wherein it stated that...
... Brian, In his monograph titled "Trust in God and Fear Nothing" : Gen. Lewis A. Armistead, CSA, Wayne Motts wrote, "Emboldened by his success at Second ...
All, I have just been informed, via one of my discussion boards, that Brian Pohanka passed away Wednesday morning, ending his struggle of several years with...
Hi Folks, I've just had an email with the following announcement from the Western Maryland Historical Library about some great reference works now online....
I found the source that states Kingsbury's wife was daughter of Zachary Taylor: In his book "Antietam Revealed", Dennis Frye states on page 118 (item #1209) ...
On behalf of Save Historic Antietam Foundation, this request is made for your consideration. The New Hampshire delegation in the House of Representatives have...
