http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/ Let's Talk Antietam Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:19:46 GMT Stephen Recker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5956 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5956 Steve, That display was actually put together by Elizabeth Howe who works at the library. I loaded her some images/info. Credit where it's due ;-) The Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:07:47 GMT jeffcowvplanning http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5955 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5955 Steve... Saw your display at the Washington County Library. The stereocard of the photographer wagon that was from the collection of the Historical Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:31:24 GMT G E Mayers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5954 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5954 Gang, Any one recall whether there is a fee or is it a donation requested....for the Antietam Memorial Illumination? If a donation requested, how much is the Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:32:10 GMT G E Mayers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5953 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5953 If you look at Troiani's painting about the advance of the Irish Brigade, you do see some barefoot soldiers............. Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:30:36 GMT G E Mayers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5952 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5952 Guys; In all fairness to Mac, this area...logistics....was one of the major problems with why he could not effectively pursue the ANVa following Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:02:29 GMT Scott D. Hann http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5951 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5951 Tom, excellent point. In the writings of Colonel Edward Cross of the 5th New Hampshire he mentions a good number of his men were without shoes at Antietam. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:05:33 GMT Thomas Clemens http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5950 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5950 And that's exactly the point Dave. Too many authors often make assumptions that the Union army was always well fed and well suplied. Reading these letters to Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:49:36 GMT david lutton http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5949 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5949 Tom, Imagine yourself on this campaign.... Hot dusty marches..Commissary wagons not keeping up or lost...I think that after a few days that Hard Tack would Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:06:52 GMT G E Mayers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5948 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5948 Tom, interesting stuff. As to the hardtack, it depends on how made etc..... From all the years I have been making it, I have found it is as much an art as Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:00:26 GMT Thomas Clemens http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5947 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5947 I am not able to access my sources right now, but yes, I think we are talking about two cabins, one disappearing much earlier than the other. Also, IIRC, Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:12:10 GMT G E Mayers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5946 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5946 Stephen and Tom, Are you not talking about two separate cabins? Yr. Obt. Svt. G E "Gerry" Mayers To Be A Virginian, either by birth, marriage, adoption, or Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:09:06 GMT Stephen Recker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5945 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5945 This is great stuff. Thanks! Was it one building with the Summers and the Lowman family sharing? Stephen ... [Non-text portions of this message have been Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:41:53 GMT Stephen Recker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5944 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5944 I just found another article that says the Em's wife died in 1937 and that she was the wife of a Piper Slave. Hmm, maybe him and his mom were slaves there? Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:35:47 GMT Stephen Recker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5943 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5943 Gerry, Yes, that's the one. It was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Emory "Em" Summers. Em's mother was a slave of the Henry Piper family. Thanks, Stephen ... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:03:38 GMT RoteBaron http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5942 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkAntietam/message/5942 Stephen, Here is a posting that I saved from Ranger Brian Baracz on Aug 28, 2006 regarding Lowman cabin.... A recent question to the group asked about a