Posted on 09/17/2004 2:51:58 AM PDT by snippy_about_it
LOL! Pinging Phil! ;-)
Didn't catch any, but I swear you could feel them.
Thank You for the warm welcome!!!!!
Evening aomagrat. I wasn't aware of the Patrol Frigate Class in WWII. They the US equivalent of the Canadian Corvette?
Welcome Home! Thanks for your service to our Country.
Thanks for this posting. I visited Antietam battlefield last summer with my kids on our way to Washington. I had known it was a major battle but was vague about its significance.
I want to encourage any Freepers who have the opportunity, to visit this battlefield. It is beautifully kept, with excellent signage and memorials at significant spots. It has a fine small visitors' center with an excellent film about the battle. Easily accessible by auto with a well-done self-directed tour, it was an unexpected highlight and a gem of a place to see.
Go see Antietam Battlefield--it's worth it.
This is so true joanie. Sam and I took the driving tour today. Stop 8 is the Sunken Road. Now of course because we know the history well, we knew what was coming and still as we parked and walked toward the road we got choked up. We observed the high ground the North held and then walked down into the sunken road and looked up and down the length of it, it was raining but we wanted to walk the length of it. The feeling is not easy to describe, very humbling and somber.
Sharpsburg.
Darn right! We just got back about an hour ago. What an awesome trip. The terrain is incredible and it makes what we know in our mind of the battle so much more understandable.
We are collecting flag-o-grams for you on this trip PE. We have some really good ones!
Sam and I went to Antietam (Sharpsburg) today. We were originally going to try to make it to Gettysburg on the same day but we would have had to shorten the visit to Sharpsburg so we just spent the day there and will have to skip Gettysburg. Of course we had the rain to deal with but even then I don't think you could do the tour justice by trying to get both in, in one day. The only way I see that is if it was earlier in the summer and you had more daylight hours.
Ooops. You said same trip. I read same day. Same trip is a good idea, but we only have three days for sightseeing and need to cram a lot in!
Hi Aeronaut.
Hi EGC.
After the long flight yesterday and today's trip to tour the battlefield I'm beat! Nothing on our plate for tonight though so I'll rest up!
Good evening Mayor.
Good Afternoon, Foxhole.
Excellent Civil War thread.
Confederate wounded at Smith's Barn, with Dr. Anson Hurd, 14th Indiana Volunteers, in attendance. Keedysville, Md., vicinity.
At least three AMEDD surgeons gave their lives while performing their duties on a single day during the September 17, 1862 action in the Battle of Antietam. VI Corps Surgeon James White was scouting sites for forward aid stations and planning evacuation routes as his unit prepared to attack Confederate positions in the East Woods when he came under sniper fire and was mortally wounded. Major General William B. Franklin, the corps commander, saw his unit suffer 21% casualties within a few hours and termed White’s loss one which was “severely felt.”
Surgeon Albert A. Kendall followed the 12th Massachusetts Infantry into the abbatoir of Miller’s Cornfield, where 3000 men fell within a 30-acre enclosure in the space of three hours on that morning. Kendall’s 325 comrades lost 224 men amid the ruined corn crop. Dr. Kendall was mortally wounded while attending to one of the 165 wounded. A similar fate befell the surgeon of the 20th Massachusetts Infantry, which fought Stonewall Jackson’s troops in the West Woods as an entire Union corps marched into an ambush. Dr. Edward Revere, Harvard Medical School graduate, was the grandson of Paul Revere. He, too, died while dressing the wounds of casualties at a regimental aid station located within musket shot of the firing line.
Thanks AJC. We toured the battlefield today, a beautiful and solemn place.
Good evening. Thanks for keeping an eye on the Foxhole for us.
We're back. You were right. Choked up at the cornfield and at the sunkenn road. The preservation of the area is wonderful.
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