South From the North Woods

The words, images, and landscape of the 1862 Maryland Campaign

Thursday, April 2, 2020

June Will Come

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This moment in time that we are living in reminds me of the days after Pearl Harbor.  I wasn’t around then for sure, but I have studied t...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Under Fire in Mexico - Light Company K, First Artillery at Churubusco

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The Churubusco Convent The terror, pandemonium, noise, and ever-present likelihood of horrific injuries or death are the constant compa...
Wednesday, December 4, 2019

To Useful to Sacrifice

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There has been a great need for an objective analysis of the leadership of General George B. McClellan during the Maryland Campaign.  Whi...
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Sunday, July 28, 2019

Where Men Only Dare to Go

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Carnage around the Dunker Church scene of Parker's Battery Royall Figg was a charter member of William W. Parkers “Boy Company” so ...
Friday, May 24, 2019

May I never be called upon to endure greater agony than at that moment…

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Alexander Webb Nine months before earning the Medal of Honor and winning everlasting acclaim as the commander of the Philadelphia Briga...
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Jim Rosebrock
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 young adult children who I love very much. I currently volunteer at Antietam and devote much time to the study of this battle and the Maryland Campaign. I enjoy collecting notable contemporary quotations by and about the men of Antietam. Since 2013 I have been conducting in depth research on the regular artillery companies of the Union Army and their leaders. I hope to turn this into a book on this subject in the future. My perspective comes from a 28-year career in the U.S. Army. Travels took me to World War II battlefields in Europe and the Pacific where American valor ended the tyranny of Nazism and Empire. But our country faced its own greatest challenge 80 years earlier during the Civil War. And it was the critical late summer of 1862, when Robert E. Lee launched the Maryland Campaign. It is an incredible story of drama, carnage, bravery, and missed opportunities that culminated around the fields and woodlots of peaceful Sharpsburg MD. So join me as I make this journey South from the North Woods.
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