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Private Daniel Tarbox Fellow blogger John Rogers ( Oliver Case blog ) and I got up before the crack of dawn today to walk a soggy batt...

A Federal eagle breast plate given to me as a gift today. Re-enactors take positions outside the Pry Farm barn during Connecticut Day ...

11th Connecticut monument at Antietam. Thirty-six soldiers in the regiment were killed in the battle, including Colonel Henry Kingsbury. ...

An unusual view of Burnside Bridge over Antietam Creek, perhaps the most iconic Civil War site. Nearly 150 years ago, people killed each...

Shortly after I arrived at Antietam this afternoon, I traipsed through tall, wet grass to the 15th Massachusetts monument on a rise overlo...

Top photo: 11th Connecticut veterans gather in front of the Roulette farmhouse during  their 1894 visit to Antietam. Below: Roulette farm...

Your humble blogger and Antietam National Battlefield Park volunteer Jim Buchanan of  Walking the West Woods blog at the 16th Connecticu...