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    My hunt after "the captain"

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    My journal in Canada and the United States

    Manuscripts

    Woodroffee details his travels throughout Canada, Michigan, Virginia, and Maryland. He talks about his visit to General McClellan's Union Headquarters and witnesses the Battle of Antietam. The diary includes some photographs, including two of dead Confederate soldiers at Antietam. With auction description.

    mssHM 52574

  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam

    Visual Materials

    Image of the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek during the American Civil War; Union officers on horseback, including General George B. McClellan and General Randolph B. Marcy, survey the battle from a hilltop; cannon and dead and wounded soldiers in foreground; army ranks marching in background.

    priJLC_MIL_000751

  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam

    Visual Materials

    Image of Union General George B. McClellan at the Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War; Union and Confederate soldiers battle along the edge of a river as Union army forces overrun a bridge; cannons fire into the lines.

    priJLC_MIL_000752

  • Battle of Antietam, advance upon rebel centre [sic] at Dunker Church

    Battle of Antietam, advance upon rebel centre [sic] at Dunker Church

    Visual Materials

    Image of Union soldiers engaged on the battlefield at the Battle of Antietam (or Battle of Sharpsburg) on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland; wounded and dead soldiers fall in an explosion at center.

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  • The Battle of Antietam, Md. Sept. 17th 1862

    The Battle of Antietam, Md. Sept. 17th 1862

    Visual Materials

    Image of the Battle of Antietam, Maryland, during the American Civil War; Union cavalry clashed with Confederate soldiers on the battlefield under a plume of smoke; flags for each army visible.

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