East Woods (photo: ANBP Museum Bookstore)
For those who missed the Work Day on March 28: We will also plant some trees in the East Woods on Saturday, April 11, 2009. Please be at the Visitor’s Center Parking lot at 9:00am and wear old clothes. Bring gloves, water, etc. Tell the Ranger that you are with SHAF.
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.
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.
September 22, 1862