Gerry More or less; those regiments were not in the road but apparently did play tangential roles before and after. PM me at killsour@... with your...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Aug 28, 2009 1:24 pm
Larry; Thanks! Do the ones that you mentioned as being relevant...are they specific to the Sunken Road? Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian,...
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eighth_conn_inf
Aug 28, 2009 1:20 pm
Gerry, The SORs are in three parts. Part I, vol. 3, pp. 568 et seq is a report by Col William Gibson of the 48th GA for Antietam for 16-17 Sept. The second...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Aug 28, 2009 2:09 am
Gang, Joe Harsh mentions the presence of Confederate reports concerning the Sunken Road in one of the footnotes to the chapter section in TATF dealing with the...
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dickeyr46
Aug 21, 2009 12:19 pm
... Couldn't get the link to work. Try without the last period. http://www.nps.gov/anti/parknews/2009-battle-anniversary-hike-schedule.htm Ron...
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dickeyr46
Aug 21, 2009 12:08 pm
The NPS has posted a news release of the Saturday, Sunday, and Thursday hikes for this year's Antietam Battlefield celebration. The post also includes...
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Harry Smeltzer
hjs212002
Aug 14, 2009 2:32 pm
Read about a new Civil War Battle Blog you may find interesting: http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/chickamauga-blog/ Harry [Non-text portions of...
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Harry Smeltzer
hjs212002
Aug 14, 2009 2:30 pm
Read about a new Civil War Battle Blog you may find interesting: http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/chickamauga-blog/ Harry [Non-text portions of...
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jeffcowvplanning
jeffcowvplan...
Aug 11, 2009 1:04 am
Hello all. Quick question... I just picked up off ebay a copy of the 1993 Blue and Gray Mag that has Tim Reese's article on the skirmish at Quebec Schoolhouse,...
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eighth_conn_inf
Aug 9, 2009 4:57 pm
Rene Tyree posted an interesting statement from Harsh that Burnside in Frederick was "considerably nearer" to HF than Franklin in Licksville (now Tuscarora) on...
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edunleavy921
Jul 30, 2009 2:38 pm
For Immediate Release – July 30, 2009 Shepherdstown, West Virginia For more information, contact: Edward E. Dunleavy President, Shepherdstown Battlefield...
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Stephen Recker
s_recker
Jul 26, 2009 6:43 pm
Gerry,, It is note #31 on page #253. Thanks. Stephen ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Jul 26, 2009 6:15 pm
Dear Stephen, I have "The Antietam Campaign" book edited by Gary Gallagher with Krick's essay about the Sunken Road. What is the footnote reference page for...
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Stephen Recker
s_recker
Jul 26, 2009 3:31 pm
I am trying to find out about Maggie Boteler, a resident of Shepherdstown who hosted a number of wounded Confederates after Antietam. I'd like to know where...
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Stephen Recker
s_recker
Jul 21, 2009 1:30 am
Tom, Thanks. Perhaps when I find the correct date it might be what this Mr. Ropes was alive. Stephen ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Stephen Recker
s_recker
Jul 21, 2009 12:11 am
Thanks, Larry. I might have the date wrong. I'll check back when I confirm. Stephen ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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eighth_conn_inf
Jul 20, 2009 4:33 pm
Stephen, Given the date of 1910, it is probably not the historian John Codman Ropes (1836-1899)who did much writing about the ACW. I have not found anything...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Jul 20, 2009 4:26 pm
Hmm. John Codman Ropes, of MA, wrote his History of the Civil War in the 1890's and had a large section on Antietam. I'm not aware of him writing anything...
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Stephen Recker
s_recker
Jul 20, 2009 1:31 am
Has anyone heard of a historian that would have been hanging around Sharpsburg circa 1910 by the name of Ropes? His first name may have been Chuck. Thanks....
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Brian Downey
antietam1862
Jul 20, 2009 1:26 am
Yes. Georges Augustus Gaston De Coppens was in command of the 8th Florida, in Pryor's Brigade of Anderson's Division. He had been appointed to that Regiment...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Jul 20, 2009 12:48 am
Brian, So Coppens' unit or brigade was part of the overall Sunken Road fight? Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian, either by birth, marriage,...
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bdowney@...
antietam1862
Jul 20, 2009 12:42 am
One more perspective on this: "Col. Coppen [sic] was killed almost immediately after getting fire, in the cornfield below the stone barn near bloody lane!...
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Jul 20, 2009 12:09 am
Thanks! Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian, either by birth, marriage, adoption, or even on one's mother's side, is an introduction to any...
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Michael Peters
colliszouave
Jul 18, 2009 4:20 am
Gerry, Believe that Coppens was killed along the Hagerstown Pike. Mike Peters ... From: G E Mayers <gerry1952@...> Subject: Re: [TalkAntietam] re...
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Nick KURTZ
shilohnick
Jul 8, 2009 1:40 pm
Can Tom Clemens please contact me off list? Thanks, Nick Kurtz [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Scott Hann
antietamcoll...
Jul 3, 2009 7:53 am
Thanks for going to the trouble, Tom. I'm beginning to think that I have my battles mixed up. Or, maybe I'm thinking of something Rufus Dawes said instead....
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G E Mayers
njrebel1999
Jul 2, 2009 2:45 pm
Dear Stephen, Could you quote where the word is used, please? Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian, either by birth, marriage, adoption, or even ...
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Stephen Recker
s_recker
Jul 2, 2009 11:30 am
Scott, If you Google "leadan day antietam" you will get a hit for Pennsylvania at Antietam. You must spell Leadan with two 'a's. Stephen ... [Non-text portions...
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Thomas Clemens
eacarman1862
Jul 2, 2009 1:31 am
Scott, No, it does not show up in his OR rreports, Herbert's bio or any letters to the Battlefield Board that I have seen so far. Sorry. Tom Thomas G. Clemens...
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Scott Hann
antietamcoll...
Jun 27, 2009 6:40 pm
Perhaps I have my battles mixed up, but I thought it was Maj.-Gen. Hooker who referred to the morning of the battle of Antietam as a "dark and leaden day" or...
