Antietam means “Swift River” in a Native American language, but to many Americans it is synonymous with the bloodiest one-day battle in the Civil War.
On September 17, 1862, more than 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing on the battlefield. Not even D-Day had as many casualties.
For years, there was a metal trunk that stayed under Kathryn Rice Turner’s bed in Ocean Pines.
Inside was a remarkable historical treasure — an original glass negative of President Abraham Lincoln made in 1863.
The 17-by-21-inch negative showed a seated Lincoln resting his left arm on a marble-top table. It was made using the wet plate collodion process, an innovation in photography in the mid-1800s. Family lore holds that it had been taken by her grandfather, photographer Moses Parker Rice.
Frederick’s role in the Civil War will be remembered on Friday and Saturday, September 21st and 22nd. “One Vast Hospital” is a walking tour of Downtown Frederick, visiting six of the sites which served as hospitals for injured soldiers from both sides of the conflict.
“This is a half-dozen of the sites, and there were many at the time, that a 150 years ago would become temporary hospitals, in most cases, for the next several months,
Alas, one of my childhood heroines turns out to be a sham. Although gray-headed Barbara Fritchie did in fact live in Frederick when Confederate troops marched through town en route to their historic defeat at Antietam 150 years ago, she was not the one who defiantly displayed the Union flag as legend recalls.
The brave flag-waver was instead a neighbor named Mary Quantrell, according to witnesses’ accounts and news reports from the era.
The 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, the day more Americans were killed in a single day of battle than at any other time in American history, is Sept. 17. The following, the second of two parts, is by Walter Holden of Franklin, a World War II veteran and expert on the Fifth New Hampshire, who has published articles on the subject.
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After Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson spoke to a large crowd about the Battle of Antietam for about 45 minutes Sunday night, Ed Bearss approached the podium and jokingly thanked his longtime friend for his “preliminary remarks” about Antietam.
Bearss’ comment elicited loud laughter from the audience of approximately 500 who came to the tent outside Antietam National Battlefield’s visitors center Sunday night to hear two of the most renowned Civil War historians.
Monday marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s Battle of Antietam, one of the bloodiest battles of any war. At the battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md., some of those reenacting the battle have family members who were there for this pivotal moment in history.
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Tomorrow marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s Battle of Antietam, one of the bloodiest days of any war. In honor of the sesquicentennial, the battle site is hosting a slew of events commemorating the fight. Reporter Jacob Fenston went to Sharpsburg, Maryland, the site of the battle, and brings us this report.
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Shortly before 6 a.m. Sept. 17, 1862, Union soldiers launched an assault across a cornfield against Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s left flank a little more than a mile north of Sharpsburg.
The fighting at the cornfield marked the beginning of the Battle of Antietam, a Civil War engagement that resulted in an estimated 23,110 casualties.
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