SHAF Workday at the Battlefield

October 10, 2009

A reminder for all about SHAF’s next Battlefield Work Day.

It will be Saturday, November 14th, and we’ll meet at the Visitor’s Center Parking lot at 9 o’clock am.

Bring gloves, water, and dress for both the work and the weather. We plan to work for 3 or 4 hours but will cancel if there is a steady rain or other severe weather.

If we have enough volunteers we’ll plan to work both at clearing brush and debris along the Piper Farm Lane and planting saplings as part of the restoration of the East Woods.

Contact SHAF for more information.

For more details on the tree planting program call 301-432-2243 and ask for Joe Calzarette, Natural Resources
Manager.

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