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We were reluctant witnesses to history
timr@herald-mail.comWestern Maryland bills itself as the crossroads of the Civil War, which is true enough as far as it goes. But Western Maryland in 1860 was also the crossroads of America, and factions on all sides were competing for our souls. We were the undecideds,...Tags: Battle of Antietam, Slavery, Port of Baltimore, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Fiction
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Did McClellan get a bad rap? Debate goes on
The argument over the performance of the Union commander on the nation's bloodiest day is far from settled. Major Gen. George B. McClellan was sacked by President Abraham Lincoln less than two months after the Battle of Antietam. For more than a...Tags: Battle of Antietam, Lake County (Illinois), Stroke, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Unions
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150 years later, preservationists see victory at Antietam
— The fighting that killed or wounded 21,000 Americans in the rolling hills of Western Maryland was over in about 12 grisly hours. But a century and a half after the bloodiest day in American military history, the struggle to preserve the ground...
Tags: Battle of Antietam, Government, Annapolis, Wars and Interventions, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Back Story: 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam
On a sunny, humid day 150 Septembers ago, the fate of a nation seemingly converged at a diminutive rural Western Maryland village called Sharpsburg.
There, 87,000 federal troops under the command of Union Gen. George Brinton McClellan met the...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Harbor, Frederick County (Maryland), Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Wars and Interventions
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Students catch glimpse of life during Civil War
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comKristy Tarner of Halfway was among a group of Springfield Middle School students at the Sesquicentennial Antietam Reenactment site Friday learning about the different flags the Confederates used during the Civil War. “It was the stars and bars...Tags: Battle of Antietam, Middle Schools, Students, Slavery, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Sally Tomkins was the Angel of the Confederacy
dan.dearth@herald-mail.comWhile Clara Barton treated the Union wounded on the battlefields of the Civil War, Sally Tomkins ran a hospital for the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. Marilyn Iglesias of Gloucester, Va., portrayed Tomkins on Friday during a re-enactment marking the...Tags: Battle of Antietam, Hospitals and Clinics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Antietam National Battlefield, Wars and Interventions
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Sisters in arms found their way to war
timr@herald-mail.comEditor’s note: Tim Rowland is a Herald-Mail columnist and the author of “Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War.” A wounded Dutchman lay writhing in a makeshift Washington, D.C., hospital following the Battle of Bull Run, a...Tags: Battle of Antietam, Malaria, Blindness, Fishing, Washington, DC
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Clara L. Bussard, 79
Clara Luana Ridenour Bussard, 79, of Maugansville, Md., passed away Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, at her home. She was born Nov. 5, 1932, to the late H. Paul Ridenour and Ruth C. Kendle Ridenour. She attended schools at Winter Street and West Washington...Tags: The Salvation Army, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Milton D. Lawyer
janeth@herald-mail.comMilton Lawyer was known for his Smithsburg body shop and community involvement, but he had many talents unrelated to his business. He loved music and wanted to study at the Peabody Conservatory, but as the youngest of four sons, there was no money left...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Washington, DC, Auction Service, The Herald-Mail, U.S. Army
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Skirmish on South Mountain
dan.dearth@herald-mail.comEditor's note: It has been 150 years since the Civil War moved into Washington County and North and South met Sept. 17, 1862, on a battlefield along Antietam Creek. The following story is part of a package of stories that look back at the Battle of...Tags: Defense, Rebellions, Washington, DC, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Unions
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Excerpts from 'September Suspense: Lincoln's Union in Peril'
September 2 No American ever envisioned the U.S. Capitol building as a hospital. Wounded Union soldiers from the Battle of Second Manassas occupied the Rotunda and halls of the Senate and House. Seats formerly used by senators from the South — men...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Unions, Wars and Interventions, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Abraham Lincoln
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