Excerpt from today's Hagerstown-Mail , regarding recent arsons (includes Tom Clemens' comment)... The torching of four townhouses in this rapidly growing...
From today's Hagerstown Herald-Mail: Civil War site added to Harpers Ferry park HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. - Another 70 acres of School House Ridge property has been...
Hi Folks, I'm hoping someone can answer this query I just got by email through the AotW website. Anyone recognize? "Our family recently visited Antietam...
Jefferson County (WV) Commission holds public hearing [11/09/2005] Site for proposed park in W.Va. a 'golden opportunity' Developers challenging decision in...
Gang, The following was posted on a List Serv for the Philadelphia PA area that I also belong to, and thought it would be most appropriate for today. I had...
Would someone post the dates for SHAF's clean-up at Antietam? I believe they are this month sometime? Thanks in advance, David Lutton [Non-text portions of...
Several of you were kind enough to offer constructive criticism, assistance, and historical insights as I was writing my wargaming scenario book on South...
From Hagerstown Herald-Mail today.... ANTIETAM START OF COUNTY'S BLACK HISTORY TOUR SHARPSBURG - The bloodbath near Sharpsburg led to the Emancipation ...
I was reading Dennis Frye's "Antietam Revealed" and he mentions that on October 15, 1869 Grant and Sherman visited Antietam. Is there a newspaper article that...
Where are the easements which the Governor announced the state was purchasing (two easements totaling 828 acres), and how will this affect interpretation and...
Signal Corps Demonstration at Antietam National Battlefield Date: October 29, 2005 - October 30, 2005 Every military organization in any era, in any army, must...
Each year my roundtable studies a particular campaign or battle and then visits the area at the conclusion of the study. Next year we are going to do ...
Dear Tom (Shay) and Tom C. Gents: Did any of you learn anything new about the fighting at the Sunken Road during the Anniversary Weekend this past weekend? ...
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...
