Battlefield Work Day, November First, 2008

October 18, 2008

Please join SHAF members and other volunteers for the Work Day at Antietam National Battlefield (ANB) Park on Saturday, November 1, 2008. We’ll be doing battlefield scene restoration work.

Piper Barn, Sharpsburg (LoC, 1989)
Piper Barn, 1989 (J.E. Boucher, LoC/HABS)

We will be working on the trail SHAF helped fund through the middle of the field. Specifically, we will be clearing a portion of the Piper Lane. Dress for the weather, and bring work gloves and water.

We will meet at 9:00am Saturday at the ANB Visitor’s Center. The event will be canceled in the event of rain or other inclement weather.
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Please let us know by email, the online contact form, or phone at 301-432-2996 to notify us if you’ll be there.

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