Award-winning photographer Chris Heisey is America`s most

Author of More Generals in Gray, a History Book Club selection, Bruce Allardice is a college teacher, author, and lecturer.
His Confederate Colonels is due out this year, as is his coauthored Kentucky’s Confederate Generals. He is past president
of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago. His presentation
will focus on an under-appreciated strength of Lee’s army at
Sharpsburg: the colonels of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Dr. Clemens is a professor of history at Hagerstown Community College and a former student of
Dr. Joseph Harsh, the premier authority on
Antietam. A lifelong student of the Maryland
campaign, Clemens is the author of numerous
articles and reviews, and has appeared on
the History Channel. His topic is (note
the plural:) “Iron Brigades in the Maryland
Campaign.”
Award-winning photographer Chris Heisey is America’s
most-published Civil War photographer. His work has appeared in more than 70 publications, including National
Geographic Traveler, Popular Photography, and North and
South. He has been commissioned by the U.S. Congress and
the National Park Service for numerous assignments, and
has earned many citations, including a Photo of the Century
award. He is co-author, with Gordon Rhea, of In the Footsteps
of Lee and Grant and with Kent Gramm of Gettysburg: This
Hallowed Ground. Kent Gramm is author of November: Lincoln’s
Elegy at Gettysburg; Somebody’s Darling: Essays on the Civil War;
and Gettysburg: A Meditation on War and Values, and is editor
of Battle: The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat.
The Rev. John Schildt has spent his life living near and studying the Antietam Battleeld. A popular tour leader, he has
published After Antietam and Roads to and From Gettysburg.
His slide presentation will take us on a tour of the eld after
the battle, where doctors worked “by dim and aring lamps
through the evening dews and damps.”
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Non Member donation $125
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After the evening’s presentation a reception will be held in
Beekmann Commons for Symposium participants.
Presenters’ books will be available for purchase and signing.
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A 28-year veteran of the National Park Service, Hartwig has
been Gettysburg’s supervisory historian for the past 14 years.
He won the regional Freeman Tilden Award for excellence in
interpretation in 1993, and has been fundamental in the growth of Gettysburg’s on-site
interpretation and living history programming
and a key player for the design of the new
visitor center. He is co-author of The Gleam of
Bayonets: The Battle of Antietam and Robert E.
Lee’s Maryland Campaign, September 1862 and
numerous other articles, essays and books.
www.gettysburg.com
Walking Tour of the New Historic Walking Pathway.
Historian James M. McPherson calls Antietam the “crossroads of freedom” – the decisive event of the Civil War.
The bloodiest day in American history, the battle fought
outside the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland, put an end
to a summer of successive victories by Robert E. Lee’s
Army of Northern Virginia, and enabled Abraham
Lincoln to issue the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It also effectively ended the South’s hopes for
European recognition of the Confederacy.
In the early summer of 1862, Major General George B.
McClellan brought the Army of the Potomac to the James
Peninsula to force its way up to Richmond. In a series
of battles around the Confederate Capital, Robert E. Lee
repeatedly threw his outnumbered force against McClellan’s army, suffering disproportionately high casualties
but causing the frightened “Little Napoleon” to abandon
his campaign. Then Lee and his two corps under James
Longstreet and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson raced
north to surprise, mystify, and soundly defeat another
Union army commander on the old Manassas battleeld.
Lee then decided to cross the Potomac and bring the
war into the North, hoping to attract recruits and foreign
attention, and win a decisive battle near Washington,
D.C. President Abraham Lincoln had little choice but to
ask McClellan, still immensely popular with his men, to
reorganize both defeated armies and bring Lee to battle.
Finding a copy of Lee’s orders dividing his army in
Maryland, McClellan moved with uncharacteristic speed
against the Army of Northern Virginia’s separated units.
Rather than retreat into Virginia, Robert E. Lee, “the most
belligerent man in the army,” decided to make a stand
in the rolling farmland overlooking Antietam Creek.
Director of the Seminary Ridge Symposium, Kent Gramm
is the author of November: Lincoln’s Elegy
at Gettysburg; Gettysburg: A Meditation on
War and Values; and Somebody’s Darling:
Essays on the Civil War, contributor to the
volumes The Gettysburg Nobody Knows and
Giants in Their Tall Black Hats: Essays on the
Iron Brigade and editor of Battle: The Nature
and Consequences of Civil War Combat.
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