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Battles: Sharpsburg
The Spartan Band’s “boiled meat and crackers” eaten, the 13th and the rest of the Mississippi Brigade marched through the dawn’s early light into the western suburbs of Sharpsburg, Maryland (above),...
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Night on the battlefield, anxious morning
“We slept on the battle field last night,” Private Mike Hubbert of the Minutemen of Attala recorded in his diary Sept. 18, 1862. “It is very horrifying to hear the cries of the wounded who are all...
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Barksdale’s Report on Sharpsburg
HDQRS. BARKSDALE’S BRIGADE, ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, Camp Lee, Va., October 12, 1862. Major JAMES M. GOGGIN, Assistant Adjutant-General, McLaws’ Division. MAJOR…We reached…the neighborhood of...
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Buried on the battlefield
In 1906 a book was published in Ohio listing the names and locations of Confederates who were so badly wounded in the Maryland campaign that they were left on the battlefield by their departing...
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The Journey: Withdrawal
Friday, Sept. 19, 1862. From Private Mike Hubbert’s diary: “Rained last night very hard. Our Army all came across the River last night to the Virginia side, leaving many of our wounded in the hands of...
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