I’ve written before about the Irish Brigade in the American Civil War. At Antietam, I found their monument.
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The Irish Brigade at Antietam
Posted in Somewhere other than a cemetery, tagged antietam, antietam national battlefield, civil war, irish, irish brigade, maryland, sharpsburg on November 7, 2016| Leave a Comment »
A Different Kind of Monument
Posted in Somewhere other than a cemetery, tagged antietam, antietam national battlefield, civil war, maryland, quilt, sharpsburg on October 1, 2013| Leave a Comment »
On the way home this weekend, we made an impulsive stop at Antietam National Battlefield just outside Sharpsburg, Maryland. It was a whim, but we really couldn’t have picked a better time. Not only was there an artillery demonstration by a crew of re-enactors, but there was a textile display, and one of the central pieces was this quilt. It’s different from what I used to post about. The Pry Memory quilt was created when, following the battle, the Pry family moved to Tennessee. The signatures on the quilt blocks allowed the piece to be traced back to its origins.