(photo: Angela Clemens)
Caught in a rare group photograph at the Sharpsburg Heritage Festival on September 15th were a number of your SHAF Board of Directors. Pictured are (l to r) back row: Harry Smeltzer, Dana Shoaf, webmaster Brian Downey; front row: Don Macreadie, Bill Maharay, Paula Reed, Tom Clemens, John Nelson.
SHAF has been preserving and protecting historic sites related to the Battle of Antietam, the Maryland Campaign, and other Civil War activity in the region since 1986. We need your help to keep it going.
This great battle was fought by less than 40,000 men on our side, all of whom had undergone the greatest labors and hardships in the field and on the march. Nothing could surpass the determined valor with which they met the large army of the enemy, fully supplied and equipped, and the result reflects the highest credit on the officers and men engaged.
August 19, 1863