New SHAF Logotype

September 10, 2008

The SHAF board of directors is pleased to present our new logo.

SHAF Logo 2008
We determined last year to incorporate into our logo what is perhaps the single most recognizable Civil War battlefield icon, the lower bridge, today known as Burnside’s Bridge. Our new logo says “Antietam” at a glance, and was designed by Eric Olson, a Shepherd University Art and Graphic Design student.

SHAF merchandise and promotional literature featuring the Bridge logo will be available in the near future.

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