Excellent book!

West Woods at Antietam #civilwarhistory

New podcast episode! Many thanks to Tom McMillan and John Banks for inviting me on The Antietam and Beyond Podcast. It was a pleasure chatting with you and sharing about John Pelham's role during the Battle of Antietam (and Fredericksburg, too.)

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Late afternoon/evening is my favorite time on the battlefield #antietam #battlefields #civilwarhistory

Thinking back, I hadn't survived. That boy, that wide-eyed, unsuspecting fool of a boy, died out there, little by little, on every field of battle. Every time he killed another man, every time he watched another man die, friend or foe, it wounded that boy until finally no more wounds could be

Diarists and Richmond newspapers did not. Upon the arrival of “two car-loads” of these unfortunates, the Richmond Dispatch noted that “[t]heir masters propose to offer them for sale in Richmond, not deeming them desirable servants after having associated with the Yankees.” 4/4 #antietam #history

While the US victory at Antietam brought forth the Emancipation Proclamation, the campaign erased freedom for as many as 2,000 Black Americans who had liberated themselves when US soldiers occupied Harpers Ferry. As they did on the Gettysburg campaign, the Confederate army acted as slavecatchers 1/

"Oh! the rush and roar of the battle! I wonder if the dreadful sounds will ever get out of my ears."

-- Captain David Been, 14th Indiana (Sunken Road)

“No words can convey to the inexperienced a comprehensive idea of the surging and plunging of two great armies in deadly battle – a hurricane of death sweeping the earth.”

-- Miles Huyette, 125th Pennsylvania

The Philadelphia Brigade Monument at Antietam National Battlefield, the largest monument on the field. Just northwest of the Dunker Church, stop 5 on the Auto Tour.

"What will I do if you never come back?"

"It would be better for the boys to be without a father than to be without a government under which to live."

-- Hugh Irish to Betty Irish before enlisting in August 1862. Captain Irish was KIA along the Hagerstown Pike.

Just finished reading this really interesting book.

"I had seen paintings of Battle scenes, and I had read of the battles of the Revolution, of the War of 1812, and oh! how my young heart used to swell with patriotic pride as I read of the glorious victories achieved by the American army in Mexico, and how I longed to witness one."

One of my favorite regimental monuments at Antietam and completely unique -- 90th Pennsylvania Volunteers near the Cornfield.

My new book Dread Danger will be out later this year. More info via this link: www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

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At the Maryland Theater for the premiere of the @anti1862nps Antietam National Battlefield visitor center movie. #moviepremiere #antietam