- Pogues Battery (Rockbridge Artillery) at Antietam
Captain William Thomas Poague led the battery during the Antietam Campaign Born in Rockbridge County on December 20, 1835 A graduate of Washington College, Pogue was a lawyer in Missouri when the war began He came home and joined the Rockbridge Artillery as a 2nd Lieutenant By April 1862, he had been promoted to lead the battery
- On The Eve of Antietam - 162-Years-Ago by Kevin Pawlak
As Kevin Pawlak pointed out, Antietam remains the bloodiest single day in American military history 3,675 Americans (2,108 Union, 1,567 Confederate) died on that day This is more than died at Pearl Harbor (2,403) or D-Day (2,501)
- Cornfield at Antietam | Civil War Games Miniatures
It all started with one Confederate flag bearer that I got at the Gettysburg Miniature Soldier shop He sat on a Civil War bookshelf for a couple years, but I always felt like he deserved a "scene " In my mind, I always kept coming back to The Cornfield at Antietam, and in my imagination, the idea grew to include the Iron Brigade, as well
- Brief diary account of Antietam | Antietam Sharpsburg
Some time ago I transcribed the diary of Pierre Clausse [aka Peter Close], Private, Co I, Bucktail Regiment, 13th Regt PA Reserves, for 1862 The entries are brief, sometimes cryptic, sometimes illegible, and all in French He writes about Antietam, and the events immediately before it, obviously from his perspective as a common soldier
- Glory Opening Scene | Questions? Ask Here! No Stone Left Unturned!
The Antietam battle scene, according to an article on the production in the Civil War Times Illustrated, was filmed in McDonough, Georgia I see on the web, that the location has since been developed, as the Wesley Lakes subdivision, and particularly where a Kroger supermarket is today
- Antietam photo - Were fences often used for protection in battle?
Today I saw this sad photo of dead soldiers at Antietam and was reminded of questions I've had about fences on the battlefield View attachment 550626 (Am I being cold for using this horrific photo to raise utilitarian questions about fortifications? Hope not ) I'm interested in discussion around any or all of the following questions: 1
- Battlefield Archaeology | Antietam Sharpsburg
An interesting article on the purpose of archeology on battlefields, this particular source focuses on Antietam Below I’ve quoted one of the many benefits it notes of doing a formal study of the placement of found artifacts My emphasis in bold In the heat of battle soldiers often did not
- The faces of Antietam | Antietam Sharpsburg - American Civil War Forums
One more at Antietam who once did have a photo taken of himself in his uniform but the photo drifted off into the large family he had after the war George Washington Fulton , Willistown, Chester County Pennsylvania was a farm boy who also served in the 51st Pennsylvania and was in the charge that finally took Burnside's Bridge
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