Podcast: Dr. Mike Nickerson on Battle of Shepherdstown

On Episode 27 of "The Antietam And Beyond Podcast," Dr. Mike Nickerson — president of the Shepherdstown (W.Va.) Battlefield Preservation Association — dives into the fascinating final battle of the Maryland Campaign with co-hosts Tom McMillan and John Banks. Nickerson dishes on relics found on the battlefield and a musket discovered in the Potomac River. Plus, he tells the story of a controversial cannonball embedded in the wall of a Shepherdstown battlefield farmhouse.

Podcast: Maryland Campaign/Antietam expert Tom Clemens

In Episode 7 of "The Antietam And Beyond Podcast," historian and author Dr. Tom Clemens joins co-hosts John Banks and Tom McMillan for a chat about the Battle of Antietam, battlefield preservation and much more. 

Clemens, a Keedysville, Md., resident, is president of Save Historic Antietam Foundation (SHAF), one of the country's foremost battlefield preservation organizations, and editor and annotator of three books on the Ezra Carman papers about the Maryland Campaign. You may purchase those books on the Savas Beatie site here.

We discuss: 

• One of Save Historic Antietam Foundation's recent great saves of battlefield property. 
• The origins of SHAF. 
•  Veteran Ezra Carman, who served as the historical expert for the board that created Antietam National Battlefield. 
• The greatness of Bonnie's at The Red Byrd restaurant in Keedysville, Md. (Brown gravy!) 

The podcast is sponsored by Civil War Trails, which since 1994 has connected visitors with small towns and big stories across a network that now spans six states.

Fox's Gap at South Mountain, site of 17th Michigan charge