Historical Research Center

Newest items in the Collection

• The Antietam Journal, Volume 6
  Table of Contents The Editor’s Column Kevin R. Pawlak . . . . . . 6 Antietam Institute Announcements . . . 8 Feature Articles Lee’s Delicate Condition Steven R. Stotelmyer . . . . . 10 “Without Praise and Without Censure”: Ezra Carman and the Antietam Battlefield Board, An Appreciation Wilson H. Beebe Jr. . . . . . 29 In Their Own Words The Diary of Lieutenant James Simons, Bachman’s (South Carolina) Battery, Army of Northern Virginia James A. Rosebrock . . . . . 54 Antietam Artifacts The Sword of Wilson Colwell, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry Brian Wyland . . . . . . 64 In Antietam’s Footsteps The September 1862 Harpers Ferry Battlefield J. O. Smith . . . . . . 71 Institute Interview Sitting Down with Dennis Frye Laura L. Marfut . . . . . 75 Book Reviews . . . . . . 84 Contributor Biographies . . . . 86 Antietam Institute Membership Honor Roll . 88
• “Always Ready”: The Charge of the 9th New York in History and Memory – Dr. James Broomall
  James J. Broomall is an associate professor of History at Shepherd University. He serves as director of the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War and the Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education. Before coming to Shepherd, Broomall most recently served as an assistant professor of History at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2011 working under Professor William A. Link whose family, coincidentally, is from the Shepherdstown area. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro awarded his master’s degree in history and museum studies in 2006, and he earned his B.A. from the University of Delaware in 2001. With an abiding passion for the Civil War-era, Professor Broomall has worked in diverse environments ranging from academic institutions to local museums, and developed courses, conferences, and programs of interpretation focusing on the experiences of civilians, soldiers, and slaves during the mid-Nineteenth Century. Broomall’s scholarship is dedicated to the Civil War-era. He most recently published Private Confederacies: The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers as part of the University of North Carolina Press’s Civil War America series. Further, along with William A. Link, Broomall published an edited collection Rethinking American Emancipation: Legacies of Slavery and the Quest for Black Freedom (2016, Cambridge University Press). He has articles in Civil War History, Civil War Times, The Journal of the Civil War Era, and the edited volume, Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South in addition to historiographical essays, book reviews, and online essays. Broomall has also recently completed for the National Park Service and the Organization of American Historians a study of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal during the American Civil War, which is being used for interpretative programs, online materials, and a brochure. He currently resides in Shepherdstown with his wife Tish and their children Simon, Henry, and Addy.
• “The universal testimony is that they fought desperately and bravely…although terribly cut up, there was no flinching.” – The Story of the Battle, Memory, Acquisition, and Preservation on the Lower End of Antietam Battlefield – Brian Baracz
  Brian Baracz is a ranger at Antietam National Battlefield with over 20 years of experience at the park. Over the years, he has written many articles, on a wide range of topics regarding the Maryland Campaign. Brian received his degree in history from UMBC. He grew up in Cleveland, OH and now lives in Frederick, MD.