The stone observatory on the Bloody lane is now finished and ready for visitors. The view from this point alone is worth a visit to the famous Bloody lane as you can take in the entire right to the left nearly four miles. There will be, when all planted, nearly four hundred markers, giving one a good idea of the entire battle field with the advantage of the good roads. Every body ought to visit it and make a study of this great battle.
Some progress today
Submitted by StephenRecker on Thu, 12/15/2011 - 11:00pm
I think I have this site running rather well on the new host that I tried. There were a few glitches, one that I have fixed and one that persists, but I am going to try to work it out on this host. I really want to get back to my book about Antietam images, but I need to get this site settled first. I tried the Media Gallery module yesterday and it was very buggy, so it appears it still make take me a few days to figure out the best way to have image galleries. That is such an important component. But the Ajax menus are broken and that is task one.
About
Hello. I'm Stephen Recker and welcome to my blog. In it I will be discussing the different projects I am working on related to the American Civil War with a focus on photography related to the battle of Antietam. I am particularly interested in how the battlefield has been interpreted throughout the years. I will be discussing how it was done then and how new technologies can be brought to bear to bring life to those old materials as well as new ones. See the 99 Places Every Antietam Battlefield Guide Should Know.
Sharpsburg Items
Antietam Valley Record
Thursday, September 5, 1895