http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/ Let's Talk Antietam Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:53:26 GMT Scott Hann http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5773 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5773 Thanks for going to the trouble, Tom. I'm beginning to think that I have my battles mixed up. Or, maybe I'm thinking of something Rufus Dawes said instead. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:45:48 GMT G E Mayers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5772 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5772 Dear Stephen, Could you quote where the word is used, please? Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian, either by birth, marriage, adoption, or even Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:30:41 GMT Stephen Recker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5771 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5771 Scott, If you Google "leadan day antietam" you will get a hit for Pennsylvania at Antietam. You must spell Leadan with two 'a's. Stephen ... [Non-text portions Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:31:48 GMT Thomas Clemens http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5770 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5770 Scott, No, it does not show up in his OR rreports, Herbert's bio or any letters to the Battlefield Board that I have seen so far. Sorry. Tom Thomas G. Clemens Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:40:18 GMT Scott Hann http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5769 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5769 Perhaps I have my battles mixed up, but I thought it was Maj.-Gen. Hooker who referred to the morning of the battle of Antietam as a "dark and leaden day" or Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:56:19 GMT edunleavy921 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5768 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5768 For Immediate Release ? June 23, 2009 Shepherdstown, West Virginia For more information, contact: Edward E. Dunleavy President, Shepherdstown Battlefield Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:56:45 GMT G E Mayers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5767 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5767 Dear Michael, Thank you for that post; it was very helpful. Was not Coppens mortally wounded or killed at the Sunken Road? Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:24:00 GMT mchardy@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5766 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5766 Larry and Gerry – there was a second Confederate line for a brief amount of time behind the Sunken Road.  This line was composed of Pryor’s brigade, under Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:07:39 GMT G E Mayers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5765 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5765 Dear Larry; I think what Murfin is trying to say is the fight in the Sunken Road developed into much the same type of slugfest as had happened in The Cornfield Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:02:10 GMT eighth_conn_inf http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5764 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5764 Gerry, I haven't found anything about a second Confederate line to the rear of the sunken road so it is curious that Murfin makes a small point about this on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:24:32 GMT G E Mayers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5763 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5763 Larry; What Murfin is saying in his book appears to be about when the initial Federal attacks occurred...not later. Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:20:13 GMT eighth_conn_inf http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5762 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5762 Gerry, Carman (Pierro p. 294) states: "The Confederate line went back from the sunken road in some confusion, and when Caldwell followed into the corn the Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:00:15 GMT G E Mayers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5761 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5761 Dear Dean, No, I do not have "Unfurl Those Colors". What does Vince Armstrong mention about French's attack and any possible secondary line in the Piper fields Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:52:47 GMT Dean Essig http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5760 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5760 Gerry, Do you have Unfurl those Colors? Mine isn't handy at the moment, but he goes into great detail about the ins and outs of the 2nd Corps attack and what Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:47:53 GMT G E Mayers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5759 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5759 Dean, Thank you for that. However, if you have a copy of Murfin, see p. 250. For those who do not, here is what Murfin says, and I believe he is describing