This Year Marks 162 Years Since Antietam

And its 25 years that Deirdre and I have been leading the tour through very hallowed ground. We reflect quite a bit on the expression of visitors’ faces as they stand there in the fields, with the wind sometimes howling, leaving visitors to wonder if the howling is actually the aching and grunts of infantry ghosts marching across the terrain.

Many visitors’ mouths gape when they learn the amount of artillery shells that rained down on the soldiers of both sides crossing open fields.

We’re gearing up for another tour-centric season. We’re so proud and humbled that so many of our visitors and customers want to learn the proud history of their country. In addition to providing battlefield tales, we also strive to inform our readers about both the military and political ramifications of the Battle of Antietam. Most of the war was waged in Southern territory, but in 1862, and then a year later, Confederate General Robert E. Lee led two incursions in the North. But the devastating losses inflicted on his troops at Antietam and the Gettysburg Union victory marked the beginning of the end of the South’s cause.