My latest book is an examination of the Maryland Campaign and the battles of South Mountain and Antietam through the eyes of the 48th, 50th, and 96th PA Regiments, all of which were from Schuylkill County.
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Our Boys Did Nobly Thanks to everyone who came out for my past few book signings in both Pottsville and Gettysburg. . .and thanks to the guys at Ten Roads Publishing for all of their support.
Our Boys Did Nobly If you happen to be in Gettysburg this Remembrance Day weekend, I will be signing copies of Our Boys Did Nobly at O'Rorke's Pub from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Friday night, 11/20. Hope to see you there. . .
Our Boys Did Nobly I hope you will all take the time and listen to my interview with Mike Noirot from This Mighty Scourge. . .Thanks, Mike!
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The Maryland Campaign has always been one of my favorite campaigns in the eastern theater. CSA General Robert E. Lee’s first incursion on northern soil was designed to take advantage of the momentum ...
Our Boys Did Nobly John Seward was twenty-six years old when he enlisted as a sergeant in the ranks of Company E, 48th Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1861. During the fading daylight hours of September 17, 1862, on the heights just west of the Rohrbach (Burnside) Bridge at Antietam, a Confederate shell crashed into the ranks of Company E.... The shell tore off the arm of Sgt. William Trainer and so mangled the leg of Sgt. Seward that immediate amputation was necessary.
Our Boys Did Nobly Today, the remains of a young soldier, killed in action at Antietam 147 years ago, began the long journey home from the battlefield where he lost his life and lay buried for nearly a century and a half, to what will be his final resting place in the Saratoga National Cemetery in New York. My friend Mannie Gentile captured this very moving tribute.
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Our Boys Did Nobly Another review, this one penned by James Rosebrock, Antietam Guide and Park Volunteer. . .
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This is really the soldiers story of the 48th, 50th, and 96th Pennsylvannia regiments told in their own words from the beginning of the war through the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. The author ...
Our Boys Did Nobly The tattered battle flags of the 48th Pennsylvania. Recruited primarily from Schuylkill County, with five of its ten companies hailing from the county seat of Pottsville, the 48th sustained more than 150 casualties at its "baptism by fire" at Second Bull Run on August 29, 1862. Three weeks later, the regiment lost another 51 men at Antietam.
Our Boys Did Nobly The reviews are in. . .well, at least one, the first on amazon. I am hoping those that follow will be as highly complimentary. . .
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This is really the soldiers story of the 48th, 50th, and 96th Pennsylvannia regiments told in their own words from the beginning of the war through the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. The author ...
Our Boys Did Nobly John Dougherty, a native of County Antrim, Ireland, immigrated to the United States at the age of fifteen. He spent several years in the US Army before finding work as a railroad engineer in Palo Alto, just outside of Pottsville. When civil war erupted, he tendered his services and was mustered in as 1st Lt., Co. F, 9...6th PA. He was killed in action on September 14, 1862, at Crampton's Gap.
Our Boys Did Nobly Some early thoughts by Antietam Volunteer/Battlefield Guide James Rosebrock. . .
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I am a lifelong student of military history with particular interest in the Battle of Antietam. I work for the federal government in Washington DC and have two teenagers who keep me busy. I currently volunteer ...
Our Boys Did Nobly Our Boys Did Nobly is now available for purchase on amazon, as well as at the Antietam Museum Store. . .
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Our Boys Did Nobly The monument to the 50th PA at Antietam features a bronze statue of Colonel Benjamin Christ, a hotel proprietor and coal shipper from Minersville, who organized the regiment in the summer of 1861. Colonel Christ died at the age of 46 and was buried in the Minersville Methodist Cemetery along the Pottsville-Minersville Highway.
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Our Boys Did Nobly Joseph Gilmour, a hatter from Pottsville, commanded Company H, 48th Pennsylvania, at Antietam. After crossing Burnside's Bridge, Captain Gilmour cut off the buttons from the coat of Colonel William Holmes, 2nd Georgia Infantry, who was killed in the attack, and kept them as souvenirs. In the late spring of 1864, Gilmo...ur, now the regiment's major, was shot down by a sharpshooter's bullet.
Our Boys Did Nobly Lieutenant Colonel Joshua K. Sigfried commanded the 48th Pennsylvania at South Mountain and Antietam. Born in Orwigsburg in 1832, Sigfried was a graduate of the Pottsville Academy and a coal shipper by profession. By war's end, he was a brigadier general by brevet, and was selected by General Burnside to command a brigade in his Fourth Division, U.S.C.T.
