"Antietam Map Rediscovered" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 23 Sep 2020 8:58 p.m. PST |
In 1864, railroad engineer and cartographer Simon G. Elliott visited the battlefield of Antietam and prepared a detailed map that documented the burials of 5,844 soldiers — 2,634 Union and 3,210 Confederate. After the war, Elliott's map found its way to the archives of the New York Public Library (NYPL) where it remained largely forgotten… link |
| Greylegion | 24 Sep 2020 3:29 a.m. PST |
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Extrabio1947  | 24 Sep 2020 6:33 a.m. PST |
It is indeed a great find; and very sobering. |
 deadhead | 05 Oct 2020 12:14 p.m. PST |
I sent this link to my youngest lad who is researching a PhD on the Kansas/Missouri guerilla war. He spent two months in MO researching various archives and was due to go back for a second trawl in his second year. You can guess the rest. The Pond is a barrier and the archives are closed anyway. Some virus it seems? He had opened many a dusty old box and carefully unfolded some very fragile documents, but, when I sent him this, the language of his reply would require Bleep, bleep, bleep. Basically he decided these chaps could not have been the products of a legal marriage, but he congratulated them on their unique good fortune (or summat like that) |
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