Antietam National Battlefield
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Sounding the Shallows: A Confederate Companion for the Maryland Campaign of 1862
; ...Harsh's two-volume history of the Antietam campaign published separately as Confederate...recasting many of the major issues of the Antietam campaign. In this new work Harsh offers up...for truly ardent students of the Antietam campaign, there is much to chew on here. Harsh...
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Sounding the Shallows: A Confederate Companion for the Maryland Campaign of 1862. (Book Reviews).(Brief Article)
; ...Harsh's two-volume history of the Antietam campaign published separately as Confederate...recasting many of the major issues of the Antietam campaign. In this new work Harsh offers up...for truly ardent students of the Antietam campaign, there is much to chew on here. Harsh...
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The Antietam Campaign.
; The Antietam Campaign. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher...50, ISBN 0-8078-2481-X.) The Antietam Campaign makes a strong contribution...details of these two truths. The Antietam Campaign will encourage its mixed group...
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The Antietam Campaign
; The Antietam Campaign. Edited by GARY W. GALLAGHER. Military Campaigns of the Civil...and most welcome contribution to that historiography. In The Antietam Campaign he forges ten finely crafted essays into a stunning piece of...
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(book review)
; The Antietam Campaign. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher. (Chapel Hill: University of North...the real value of Maryland for the rebel cause came before the Antietam campaign, when the travails of this occupied slave state helped to forge...
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(book reviews)
; ...previous works, a biography of George McClellan and a study of the Antietam campaign. Chronologically he is working backwards in his battle studies; the Antietam campaign took place several months after the spring 1862 struggle on the peninsula...
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Signs mark E. Panhandle history
; ...Gettysburg. The Marlowe marker notes the path taken during the Antietam Campaign a year earlier. "It gives the whole overview of the particular...railroad lines by confederate Col. Thomas Jackson during the Antietam campaign in 1862. The signs were installed through West Virginia...
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Too Afraid to Cry: Maryland Civilians in the Antietam Campaign.
; Too Afraid to Cry: Maryland Civilians in the Antietam Campaign. By Kathleen A. Ernst. (Mechanicsburg, Penn.: Stackpole Books, c. 1999. Pp. xviii, 300. $24.95, ISBN 0-8117-1602-3.) A recent trend...
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Historical Scavengers
; ...buried at all. This was particularly true in October 1862, after Lee's army retreated into Loudoun County following the Antietam campaign. I have heard elsewhere that vultures have a persistent "genetic" memory for places with abundant food supplies. B. C...
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Civil War stories; tales of everyday soldiers and civilians; v.2.(Brief article)(Book review)
; ...Confederate States. Among his topics are one Irish brigadier, Charles Whilden and the First South Carolina, civilians and the Antietam campaign, women spies, and the life and times of Louisa May Alcott. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)
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Antietam campaign
...where his position lay behind Antietam Creek. On Sept. 15 the Harpers...McClellan attacked. The battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg) opened on the...Burnside's corps crossed the Antietam over the bridge on Lee's right...Virginia unhindered. The fighting at Antietam was so fierce that Sept. ...
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Hagerstown
...seat of Washington co., NW Md., on Antietam Creek near its junction with the Potomac...historic sites in the area include the Antietam National Battlefield and Cemetery (see National Parks and Monuments , table) and Fort...
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Frederick
...troops passed through the city en route to the battle of Antietam (see Antietam campaign ). Points of interest include the grave of Francis...Maryland School for the Deaf are in Frederick. The Monocacy National Battlefield is nearby.
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Bull Run
...the second Aug. 29-30, 1862. Both battlefields are included in Manassas National Battlefield Park (est. 1940). First Battle of...troops just west of the first Bull Run battlefield, where he awaited the arrival of...Stackpole, From Cedar Mountain to Antietam (1959); A. Nevins, The War for ...
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Barton, Clara
...1861, the Civil War catapulted her to national prominence. During the first two years...timely arrivals from Fredericksburg to Antietam earned her the nickname “Angel of the Battlefield.” In June 1864, she agreed to serve...
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