a companion to Antietam on the Web
For giving this blog some good press on Saturday. “Alternatives to bottling” sounds like drinking beer directly from the keg, but I think I know what you mean.
I’d post on the Bookshelf directly but you don’t entertain comments (turn ’em on!). Emails through the old cw-book-news to lycos route are bouncing because of a full inbox, apparently.
A new front-page feature with supporting exhibits on the Battle of Crampton’s Gap is now up on AotW. Thanks again to Tim Reese for sharing his expertise and letting us capture the best of his former website.
Back in 2002, Timothy J. Reese launched his Crampton’s Gap website. Before that, the 1862 battle was woefully underrepresented online. Prior to his books (1998, 2004*), the battle was underrepresented in print, as well.
I believe his crusade to get Crampton’s respect and formal recognition as a battlefield park were the original motives for putting the website up. The political winds strong against him, he has taken the site down. Taking a break. Tired of banging against it.
I was very sorry to see the work he’d done online disappear, so I asked him to let me pull it over onto AotW and get it back on the air. For the last few days I’ve been importing his page content and illustrations, and formatting them to work with the rest of the AotW site. Assuming Tim approves of what I’ve done, I hope to have it up this weekend.
[Tim’s Crampton’s Gap material begins here]
Although the decision to save his stuff was instinctive, I am expecting to hear from people who do not agree with his perspective. (more…)
I laughed this morning, after a double-take, on loading AotW. It’s all green! I’d forgotten about a little code I put in a couple of years back which automatically loads the St Patrick’s day style sheet on March 17th. It looks very odd. But it’s green.
Happy St Patrick’s Day! Ask the Wild Geese to find you a parade.
There should be lots of material out there in the blog-o’sphere today. (Other) Civil War junkies will wax eleoquent about Irish Brigades and regiments. As well they should.
Here’s one of ours, LCol Patrick Kelly. He was in command of the 88th New York Infantry at the Bloody Lane at Antietam. Lost his life in action later in the War at Petersburg, Virginia. Saints preserve him.
I came upon this picture of T.J. Goree on the Park Service Virtual Tour of Gettysburg the other day. I don’t know why, but I hadn’t noticed his face before. He’s one of “my guys” (a participant on the 1862 Maryland Campaign), you know.
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I mean to provide at least a quick biographical sketch of all the officers in command of regiments or larger units at Sharpsburg (now expanding to cover the larger Campaign) on AotW. By now we’ve got at least a listing for nearly all of them; about 1,000 men. I’ve recently been “recruiting” from other groups, notably officers mentioned in reports and dispatches, and those in staff jobs on the campaign.
Lieutenant Goree was one of the latter: an aide-de-camp to MGen Longstreet. His photo was the trigger to do some reading and learn a little about him for the site. I updated AotW with a brief bio on him today.
His picture was a bit of a shock as I first saw it, though. I had a different face in my mind. I realized later that this was because of the way Goree was portrayed in The Movie: (more…)