Steve, A friend who is quite an authority on Fox's Gap sends this for a reply:\ Please allow me to return a favor to the Talk Antietam group. The North...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Apr 1, 2008 1:41 pm
Dear Tom, Thanks for posting that. And I agree! Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian, either by birth, marriage, adoption, or even on one's...
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Jim Rosebrock
pointsalines
Apr 1, 2008 5:41 pm
Colleagues Fighting Joe Hooker by Walter Hebert came in the mail recently. For a 60+ year old book, it is a very good like you all said. I havent completed...
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eighth_conn_inf
Apr 1, 2008 8:36 pm
Fitzhugh Lee on 13/14 September crossed the Catoctins at Hamburg Pass according to Carman after riding north from Shookstown. Is this pass now the location of...
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Steve
myness
Apr 1, 2008 9:07 pm
That is quite helpful, and helps to explain my confusion of distance while trying to match the maps in the book to the ground. I'm going to dust off my copy...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Apr 1, 2008 9:45 pm
Steve... Simple solution to that problem....do not tell her! Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian, either by birth, marriage, adoption, or even ...
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Steve
myness
Apr 2, 2008 5:49 pm
LOL! Speaking of Obt. Svt's - I already spilled the beans. But my wife is very indulging of my battlefield obsession. She loves the outdoors, and doesn't...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Apr 2, 2008 5:52 pm
Yes it does, or the Wood road as they called it. If you start north from Fox's Gap, where the Stonewall regiment marker is located, it will bring you out at...
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eighth_conn_inf
Apr 2, 2008 6:39 pm
Steve, According to Carman there were pickets from Hampton's Brigade, Martin's regiment, the Jeff Davis Legion. Check out Carman (Pierro) pp. 124-5. Here is a...
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cowie_steve
Apr 2, 2008 7:06 pm
Larry, Thanks so much for clarifying. To refresh, Murfin's GOB, page 153, placed the 10:00 p.m. contact between the escaping Federal cavalry column and...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Apr 2, 2008 8:04 pm
I am familiar with Carman's account and the letters, reports, etc. he used to write that passage. Murfin used Carman as his source on this. I am also...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Apr 2, 2008 9:48 pm
Dear Tom, Some maps I have seen of the area depicting how it looked in 1862 seem to indicate the presence of another woods road which linked up with the wood...
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joseph_pierro
Apr 4, 2008 4:38 pm
Tom is correct regarding the distances involved in Carman's version of the event. It does give one pause. On the other hand, I've yet to find any contemporary...
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George
gffranks3
Apr 6, 2008 10:31 pm
The Capitol Hill Civil War Round Table will present Edward H Bonekemper III speaking on: "McCLellan and Failure: A Study of Civil War Fear, Incompetence and...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Apr 7, 2008 2:01 pm
Gerry, Due to the nature of use, mostly farming, grazing or wood cutting, there were little roads and trails all over the place along the Ridge or Wood Road....
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Apr 7, 2008 2:13 pm
Folks, My son and I participated in the Park Day activity at Fox's Gap on Saturday. The MD Park Service is planning a living history event on the first...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Apr 7, 2008 2:21 pm
Tom, What Saturday in June will that event be? Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian, either by birth, marriage, adoption, or even on one's...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Apr 7, 2008 2:36 pm
As far as I know, it is the first weekend in June, so that would be the 7 & 8. Dr. Thomas G. Clemens Professor of History Hagerstown Community College ... ...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Apr 7, 2008 2:57 pm
Dear Tom; Figures! When there is a very interesting program, I have something already scheduled..... Thanks! Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A...
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joseph_pierro
Apr 8, 2008 5:47 pm
FYI: James McPherson's "Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam" must be going out of print in hardcover (if it isn't already), because Amazon is currently blowing out...
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Stephen Recker
s_recker
Apr 9, 2008 2:51 am
Does anyone know of a Brady photograph of a father lifting his son onto a horse? This would have been near Elk Ridge. Thanks. Stephen...
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eighth_conn_inf
Apr 9, 2008 1:30 pm
Could anyone reveal which institution Mr. Armstrong is attending for his PhD? Larry ... is an expansion of his doctoral dissertation, and a lot of professors,...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Apr 9, 2008 4:39 pm
Larry, He already has the degree, but I cannot recall where he got it. He lives in TN and adjuncts at several school there. Dr. Thomas G. Clemens Professor of...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Apr 9, 2008 4:41 pm
Update! We will meet at 9:00 in the Rohrbach Campground, located off Burnside Bridge Road. At least for a while we'll be planting seedlings. THat's all I know...
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RoteBaron@...
Apr 9, 2008 7:30 pm
The newspaper said Mr. Armstrong was at Antietam for a booksigning last Saturday. His new "Unfurl Those Colors" is certainly required reading for Antietam...
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(no author)
(no email address)
Apr 9, 2008 8:07 pm
Yes, and hardly anybody knew about it. I dropped by on Sunday and was stunned when John Hoptak told me Vince had been there the day before. SHAF is looking at...
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RoteBaron
RoteBaron@...
Apr 10, 2008 12:31 am
Many of you know my good friend and fellow Schuylkill Countian John Hoptak, who is an NPS ranger at Antietam. John has launched an effort to replace the...
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128thpa@...
pa128th
Apr 10, 2008 2:16 am
Hi Tom - I will be glad to put this in my preservation column for the Delaware Valley CWRT. Paula ... From: "RoteBaron" <RoteBaron@...> Many of you...
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128thpa@...
pa128th
Apr 10, 2008 2:20 am
Tom: I forgot to ask, can I get permission to use some info from the website as long as I use quotes and identify the source - and perhaps use a photo? ...
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RoteBaron@...
Apr 10, 2008 12:06 pm
The website's purpose is to get the information out to the public, so anything you use from it would be welcomed in furthering in the effort to restore the...
