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The Proceedings of the Potomac Street Irregulars
A compilation of cases discussed by the Potomac Street Irregulars, a study group of Antietam Historical Association. The Potomac Street Irregulars meet monthly to study crimes in the history of the region of Maryland and Pennsylvania drained by Antietam creek and contiguous territories. These cases include the unsolved 1946 murder of Miss Betty Jane Kennedy, the Revolutionary-era Shockey counterfeiters, the murders of the brothers Shockey, the 1830 massacre of the Newey family which resulted in the first Maryland execution for murder based entirely on circumstantial evidence, and more.
Waynesboro as We Knew it
The history of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, through the end of the Twentieth century, told through reminiscences, diaries, letters, pictures, and anecdotes collected by the Author over the past forty years.
Crossroads of Freedom
The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. In Crossroads of Freedom, America's most eminent Civil War historian, James M. McPherson, paints a masterful account of this pivotal battle, the events that led up to it, and its aftermath. As McPherson shows, by September 1862 the survival of the United States was in doubt. The Union had suffered a string of defeats, and Robert E. Lee's army was in Maryland, poised to threaten Washington. The British government was openly talking of recognizing th...
Southern Historical Society Papers
Reprint of the original, first published in 1886.
A Fierce Glory
On September 17, 1862, the "United States" was on the brink, facing a permanent split into two separate nations. America's very future hung on the outcome of a single battle--and the result reverberates to this day. Given the deep divisions that still rive the nation, given what unites the country, too, Antietam is more relevant now than ever. The epic battle, fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, was a Civil War turning point. The South had just launched its first invasion of the North; victory for Robert E. Lee would almost certainly have ended the war on Confederate terms. If the Union prevailed, Lincoln stood ready to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. He knew that freeing the slaves would...
