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2024 Fall Conference
We asked one of our sponsored student attendees, Garrett Hale to write a review of the Fall Conference and share their experiences and insights of the weekend event. September 27: First day of the conference The first day’s programs were very intriguing and established the conference’s focus around the southern end of the battlefield.…
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What I learned at the Spring Symposium
Our Spring Symposium scholarship recipient was Shepherd University Freshman, Hayden Kreitzer. Here is he’s recap of the Symposium. I would consider myself comparatively well versed in American History, but not particularly the Civil War. The conflict was, in most teachings in my school, dully and sometimes inaccurately summarized: The South had the better…
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The “Commanders of Antietam” Speaker Series in the Pry Barn
Institute historian are back at the Pry House this summer for our “Commanders of Antietam” speaker series. Come to the Pry House to hear the contributors of the Commanders of Antietam discuss in detail some of the commanders that fought in the 1862 Maryland Campaign. The series is sponsored by the Antietam Institute and…
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Commanders of Antietam
We are pleased to announce that our Membership incentive book for 2024 will be Commanders of Antietam. Commanders of Antietam, the Union and Confederate Commanders at the Battle of Antietam is a comprehensive look at the biographies of both armies’ high command during the Maryland Campaign of September 1862. This treatment focuses on the lives…
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2023 Memorial Illumination
On Saturday, December 2, 2023, the 33rd Annual Memorial Illumination was held at the Antietam National Battlefield to honor the 23,000 casualties from the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. The Memorial Illumination began in 1989 and is held every year on the first Saturday in December. The idea behind the illumination is…