Comments on: Antietam Weekend Continued

By: Doc C

Doc C — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:03:50 +0000

Went to Antietam on the way to work in Cumberland. Have been there numerous times but thought it would be special to visit on the 17th since have numerous ancestors (20) who fought there, were wounded (5th New Hampshire) and died 16th Conn. Perhaps the most poignant place for me is the rail fence along Hagerstown Pike where my uncle in the 9th La faced off against a cousin in the 2nd Wisconsin. To see the piciture of the dead in the La Brigade and the current area along the pike is perhaps the most stirring civil war site to me.

By: behind AotW » Blog Archive » A Painter and a Coffin for Two Stetsons

behind AotW » Blog Archive » A Painter and a Coffin for Two Stetsons — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:25:20 +0000

[...] Anniversary weekend at the Antietam battlefield, Harry Smeltzer came upon the stone honoring Lieutenant Colonel John L Stetson. Stetson was killed at the head of the 59th New York Volunteer Infantry, at the farthest reach of the disastrous Federal Second Army Corps advance into the West Woods on 17 September 1862. [...]

By: mannie Gentile

mannie Gentile — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:10:52 +0000

Harry,

It was great seeing you again if only for a moment. Seems that everytime we meet you are vacationing and I’m working. Glad you went on Ranger Mike’s hike. Like the lipgloss said of the chapstick…

“he’s the balm!”

Mannie

By: aly army

aly army — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:00:47 +0000

Harry,
great travelogue! makes me want to be there… could you please email me — I have a question to ask?

Thanks,
Alyce

By: Tom Clemens

Tom Clemens — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:33:50 +0000

Not only was Stetson a relative of the hat maker, his brother, who at one time was president of the NY Bar Asso. was the personal lawyer of J.P. Morgan. That may explain how his brother could afford to fund this monument and the one at the corner of Smoketown Rd and Hagerstown pike.