Heritage Days Update

September 5, 2008

As part of the Sharpsburg Heritage Days Festival on Saturday, September 13th, SHAF will be sponsoring three Civil War lectures. SHAF board members John Schildt, Dr. Thomas Clemens, and Harry Smeltzer will each be speaking at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM, and 3:00 PM, respectively. The lectures are free.

The Save Historic Antietam Foundation (SHAF) Lecture Series

1:00 John W. Schildt, “‘One Vast Hospital’: The Hospitals of Antietam.”

2:00 Tom Clemens, “The Battle of Shepherdstown.”

3:00 Harry Smeltzer, “Threads.”

SHAF logo in white

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.

Col. Strong's horse

Antietam Witness

The number of dead horses was high. They lay, like the men, in all attitudes. One beautiful milk-white animal had died in so graceful a position that I wished for its photograph. Its legs were doubled under and its arched neck gracefully turned to one side, as if looking back to the ball-hole in its side. Until you got to it, it was hard to believe the horse was dead.


- Alpheus Williams

September 22, 1862