Antietam Scenes

[Lubliner]

The one distinct association to the Dunker Faith is the lack of steeples on their churches.
Lubliner.

 

[RochesterBill]

My Great Great Grandfather was in the 108th NY, French's division. They had mustered in abiut a month earlier, and had not seen or heard a single shot fired in anger before being ordered to charge the Sunken Road.

Ive often thought about that moment. Showing up in the middle of hell in your brand new uniform. What courage they had.

 

[RochesterBill]

The one distinct association to the Dunker Faith is the lack of steeples on their churches.
Lubliner.

"Dunker" was, of course, not a term they used themselves but rather one that others employed in reference to their practice of full-immersion adult Baptism. (ie. "dunking")

They were basically German Baptist Brethren, although there was no central synod at the time.

Theologically they were very similar to the Quakers, Mennonites and Amish, which are of course the genesis of the Anabaptist tradition which extends today to the various Baptist churches.

The lack of steeples, which they share with other strict Anabaptist sects like the Amish, is to remain humble, or "plain" as they put it. A steeple would make it seem like you were drawing attention to yourself or being prideful and taking focus away from God.

Hey, all those History of Christianity courses from college come in handy so seldom that one has to take the opportuniy.

Thank you.

 

[Coonewah Creek]

The fight for the Cornfield was much like that of the Wheatfield at Gettysburg the following year, as it drew units endlessly into its vortex where they were successively "chewed up and spit out". Two such units memorialized above and below on either side of Mansfield Avenue were the Union Fourteenth Brooklyn and the famous Texas Brigade, which suffered terrible losses, the 1st Texas suffering the highest regimental percentage loss of any unit in the entire war, 82%.

Taking nothing away from the 1st Texas and its horrific sustained casualty rate, but less well-known is the fact that the 2nd Mississippi, deployed to the 1st Texas's right, anchoring the left flank of Law's Brigade, Hood's Division, perhaps unsurprisingly had the *second* highest casualty rate, 73.3%. Of 210 men engaged, 27 were killed and 127 wounded. My great-grandfather was one of them, wounded in both legs during the counter-attack into the Cornfield.

 

[Virginia Dave]

The one distinct association to the Dunker Faith is the lack of steeples on their churches.
Lubliner.

I never knew that. Thanks

 

[Tennis]

General Robert E. Lee's Headquarters west of Sharpsburg, Maryland.

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General Robert E. Lee's Headquarters Monument.

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* Photos courtesy of William Bechmann (2013)

Excellent photography

"Sears thinks part of the problem was that Burnside was sulking because he had been removed from his position as commander of McClellan's temporary Right Wing formation." I have read this quote from Sears as well.

When one visits Burnside Bridge, note the high bluff which the Confederates mounted a defense -- Defense has the great advantage.

There were three bridges across the Antietam "Burnside Bridge" is the Rohrback bridge.

 

[James N.]

Excellent photography

"Sears thinks part of the problem was that Burnside was sulking because he had been removed from his position as commander of McClellan's temporary Right Wing formation." I have read this quote from Sears as well.

When one visits Burnside Bridge, note the high bluff which the Confederates mounted a defense -- Defense has the great advantage.

There were three bridges across the Antietam "Burnside Bridge" is the Rohrback bridge.

Although three of these bridges pertain to the battle here, I was surprised to learn that there are no less than somewhere over FORTY similar stone bridges and culverts throughout Washington County! We were able to secure the use of one of them for the 125th anniversary reenactment back in 1987.

 

[bankerpapaw]

Beautiful photos!!! Thanks!!!

 

[Paul Yancey]

Very informative thread. Great pictures.

 

[Tennis]

I was surprised to learn that there are no less than somewhere over FORTY similar stone bridges and culverts throughout Washington County!

Thanks - Our Battle Field guide did not point this our to us.

 

[James N.]

I was surprised to learn that there are no less than somewhere over FORTY similar stone bridges and culverts throughout Washington County!

Thanks - Our Battle Field guide did not point this our to us.

Unfortunately, the Middle Bridge across Antietam Creek which used to stand in the space above no longer exists and has been replaced by the current modern highway bridge.