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  Dr. Mike Nickerson — president of the Shepherdstown Battlefield Preservation Association — discusses important recent preservation news ...

Sharpshooter Lewis Branscomb, an Alabaman, suffered a mortal wound in the yard of this house.                  Like this blog on  Facebook  ...

Like this blog on Facebook  | Follow me on Twitter Many Confederate Antietam dead are buried here at Elmwood Cemetery in Shepherdstown, W....

A Union sharpshooter killed Lewis Branscomb of the Third Alabama in the front yard of  this house on Washington Street in Harpers Ferry, ...

John Brown was hanged in what now is the yard of this Victorian mansion in Charles Town, W.Va.                  Click on image for ful...

Mortally wounded at Antietam, Rebel doctor William Parran is buried  in Elmwood Cemetery in  Shepherdstown, W.Va., which was part of Virg...

                                     Click on image for full-screen interactive panorama. During the Civil War, the imposing Maryland Heig...

Confederate soldier David Thatcher, mortally wounded on Oct. 19, 1863,  is buried in Tuscarora Presbyterian Church in Martinsburg, W.Va. ...

David Hatcher of the First Virginia Cavalry was mortally wounded on Oct. 19, 1863. Buried at Tuscarora Presbyterian Church in Martinsburg...