Fellow Antietam volunteer Dave Maher just started a new blog called Pennsylvania Emergency Men. It is the story of the Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, and that state's response to the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's invasions of 1862 and 1863. Dave has already written several very informative posts and I look forward to following his blog with great interest. Take a look at this blog here. Like me, Dave volunteers on Sundays and you will often find him out on the field somewhere as a battlefield ambassador. Best of luck to you Dave in this new endeavor. As I learned in one of Dave's posts, many of the emergency militia who enrolled during the Gettysburg campaign of 1863 were members of recently discharged nine month regiments like the 125th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry whose monument at Antietam is shown at the left.
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