Battle of Antietam Sept 17, 1862

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[yawningotter]

On this day in 1944, General Browning of the First Allied Airborne Army, upon landing in the 82nd Airborne DZ, ran across the field to the Reichwald Forest, just inside the German Border, because he wanted to be the first British officer to pee in Germany.

[ohioman]

Awesome post!

[zot]

Thanks for the ping.

[jmacusa]

Churchill later did the same thing in March of 1945. Seriously though, Market-Garden was a bloody disaster.

[tanknetter]

I wouldn’t be so quick to judge. I was at Manassas several years ago, talking to a couple Rangers at the visitor center, and a family comes in all excited and wanting to know where the reenactment is. Rangers tell them there’s no reenactment that day, but the father (with wife and two sons nodding in agreement) is adamant that they heard massed musket and cannon fire coming from the direction of Chin Ridge. The Rangers tell him again, no reenactment, and one of them leaves to go investgate the reported gunfire. The other one looks at me and says “we get these every week or two”.

Apparantly the big occurances are the people either thrilled or absolutely apalled at the realism of the Civil War medicine living history demos at the Stone House that happen regularly, but again without any such thing being on the schedule ...

[Wage Slave]

Very interesting post. I live in Lynchburg and have been to Appomattox but never Sailor’s Creek.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[skeeter]

Our family lost a descendant in the fighting at antietam (49th Penn volunteers, I think) so I understand what you mean.

[MissMagnolia]

Just found this link ... looks good:

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam/maps/antietam-animated-map.html

[MissMagnolia]

Excellent video showing the Battle of Antietam:

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam/maps/antietam-animated-map.html

[jmacusa]

My great-great grandfather(mom's side) work in the Surgeon Generals Office in DC from 1861 to 1865. I believe my oldest brother has his diary, some record books, papers and other property that was his. I remember him reading me a notation sometime written in mid-October of 1862 where my ancestor made mention about still treating ‘’the Antietam wounded’’, and he wrote of ‘’grievous wounds.. ‘’ many amputations.’’

[Billthedrill]

Great stuff, and thanks for posting! This place is on the bucket list.

[A_Former_Democrat]

TYVM for this. I learned recently that my ancestor was one of the six generals killed that day. In reading further about him, quite an accomplished man he was. Also, that Antietam was the bloodiest day in US Military History.

[skeeter]

I can only get the intro to play.

[manic4organic]

That was so interesting. Thanks!

[MissMagnolia]

Noooooo ........

So sorry if you can’t get it .... have you tried clicking on the individual segments at the bottom of the video (where sound control etc. is)? Maybe you have to manually go to the next section. When I played it, after the intro it stopped ....and I thought is that all? Then it finally continued to play after a few seconds. I just went to it and while the intro was playing, clicked the next segment and it played.

[skeeter]

It works. A good concise presentation, thanks.

My kin, John Kirkpatrick, a private and carpenter from western Pennsylvania, was the only KIA from his unit during the battle. He died some three days after the action.

[MissMagnolia]

Yay! Glad it worked for you. :-)

[Sherman Logan]

Her husband was one of the prisoners used as a human shield by the Union at Charleston in an attempt to silence the Confederate gunners at Fort Sumter ... one of The Immortal Six Hundred.To be fair, this action was taken in retaliation for CSA using Union officers as human shields.

The subsequent treatment of the 600 is a good deal less justifiable.

[MissMagnolia]

To be fair, this action was taken in retaliation for CSA using Union officers as human shields.

True!