After the battle, a path had to be made by dragging bodies out of the road and placing them along the fences. Gen. Alpheus Williams wrote, “The number of dead horses was high. Read more…, It wasn’t my heart that he broke.Read more…, What desperate, humiliating steps would I take in order to watch him play?Read more…, Even when we disguise their identities, we risk betraying them.Read more…, It isn’t unusual for therapists to get emotionally attached to people we’ve never met. Starke then led the men forward to shore up the front line at the same time Hays advanced into the cornfield. One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, Americans went to war with themselves. The Tigers held their position for a few minutes but were soon forced to retreat to the Dunker church. The photographs of the dead horse and the Confederate bodies along Hagerstown Pike stood out among the horrific images, and yet their subjects’ identities remain a mystery. As I decrease my medications, the urgency I feel around men and relationships subsides. Four years ago, Disunion convened a panel of experts to discuss the outbreak of the Civil War. Three bullets hit Starke almost simultaneously and knocked him from his horse, mortally wounded. Titled “View in the Field, on the west side of Hagerstown road, after the Battle of Antietam,” it is one of the most reproduced photographs of Civil War dead. The “Force” holds great appeal compared with our anxieties here on earth, as seen in other films this season. under Hays’s command, wrote to his wife, “I thought, Darling, that I heard at Malvern Hill heavy cannonading, but I was mistaken. that one cannon fired [[A?]] In October, Brady displayed Gardner’s photographs in his New York City studio. Sources: Rufus Dawes, “Service With the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers”; William A. Frassanito, Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America’s Bloodiest Day”; Terry L. Jones, “Lee’s Tigers”; “Head Quarters 13th Regt. Read more…, Had I prolonged my Indian grandmother’s suffering with my stubborn belief in the power of medicine to fix things? back through what one soldier called a “murderous fire which thinned our ranks at every step.”, John Gibbon’s famous Iron Brigade, the only brigade in the Army of the Potomac comprising men from the Western states, had just helped drive Hays’s Tigers and other rebels out of the cornfield. Could Pearl Harbor be called a “failure of imagination,” and in that sense was it similar to the attacks of 9/11? Tigers joined other units in charging across Miller’s farm. Scarcely half a football field apart, the blue and gray infantry faced each other across the chest-high rail fences that lined the narrow road and traded volleys at point blank range. Jackson then sent his second line forward to stabilize the situation, and Hays’ Composing with orchestral instruments was fine. Read more…, If you read the series (or if you’re just a huge Civil War nerd), what have you learned? Lauren M Cook and DeAnne Blanton document lives and experiences of 250 women on both sides of Civil War in book They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War; profile of Cook, who sued for right to participate in Civil War re-enactments, once sole province of men; photo (M), Charles Strum Weekend Excursion article on visit to Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania; photos; map (M), Scene at re-enactment of Civil War battle at Sharpsburg, Md, described; photos (M), J M Fenster article describes visits to Civil War battlefields at Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg and Fredericksburg; photos; map (M). As a corps under the Union general Joseph Hooker attacked Jackson’s front at daylight on Sept. 17, Federal artillery began to pound the Confederate positions. Read more…, As I decrease my medications, the urgency I feel around men and relationships subsides. R. Miller’s cornfield: Gen. William E. Starke’s brigade was positioned west of the Hagerstown Pike, while Gen. Harry T. Hays’s brigade was to the east. Simultaneously, Although directing the actions of the entire division, Starke grabbed one of the Tigers’ flags and personally led the Louisianians up the west side of the road toward the enemy. Titled “View in the Field, on the west side of Hagerstown road, after the Battle of Antietam,” it is one of the most reproduced photographs of Civil War dead. One Union soldier wrote that “the piles of dead . Louisiana Tigers. The absence of evidence, the evidence of absence, and the Iraq War. Had I prolonged my Indian grandmother’s suffering with my stubborn belief in the power of medicine to fix things? bodies along the Hagerstown Pike. were frightful.” Charles Behan on this, his 18 birthday. Now, those experts are back to discuss the war’s end, and its legacy. Vols.”. experience there had been horrific: the Sixth Wisconsin’s Maj. Rufus Dawes wrote, “As we appeared at the edge of the corn, a long line of men in butternut and gray rose up from the ground. the horse was dead.”, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. saw the horse four days after the battle while searching for his wounded son. Too many physicians think palliative care means giving up. meet this new threat. A live oak in South Carolina and a sycamore at Antietam Creek are among 21 plants and landscapes cited as threatened. It was the first time in history that the general public Of his 70 pictures, Gardner featured only one lone horse, stripped of its saddle and tack. It very likely belonged to Colonel Strong, and it became something of a landmark among the Union soldiers left on the field Colonel Stafford immediately wheeled his men to the right to Two regiments Explore multimedia from the series and navigate through past posts, as well as photos and articles from the Times archive. who were now advancing, pouring out of the woods in endless lines, sweeping through the cornfield from which their comrades had just fled.”, Hooker ordered more units forward in response, including a brigade under Gen. George Hartsuff. The rest were scattered over the field in confusion. Two days after this slaughter took place, long after many of the bodies had been buried, Alexander Gardner began taking his battlefield photographs. The 12th Massachusetts went into the fight with 334 men and But Hartsuff’s brigade had suffered equally heavy losses in running Hays out of the cornfield. What a regiment of inexperienced Indiana soldiers saw at Antietam. Major Dawes reported My mother’s death was so wrenching that I applied to medical school to help change the way people die in America. When another shell put division commander Gen. J. R. Jones out of action, Starke turned his brigade over to the Ninth Louisiana’s Col. Leroy A. Stafford and took command The Moviegoers pick who should and who will win at the Academy Awards — and pick apart Hollywood’s diversity problem. More Americans died on Sept. 17, 1862, at the Battle of Antietam, than any other day in history. Disunion revisits and reconsiders America’s most perilous period — using contemporary accounts, diaries, images and historical assessments to follow the Civil War as it unfolded. Should convicted felons receive free health care? But I found a richer palette of melody, counterpoint and rhythm already in the air.Read more…, Four years ago, Disunion convened a panel of experts to discuss the outbreak of the Civil War.