In the center of the frame, between a rough wood-plank fence in the front and a green forest backed by blue mountaintops in the rear, is the cornfield at Antietam - the site of a fierce Civil War battle and the single bloodiest day in American history.
Cornfield at Antietam

Redeeming the past

  • Post category:From: We Confess!
  • Post last modified:March 16, 2024

Mini-post. Image of the cornfield at Antietam, where my great-great-grandfather fought. Quote about repeating the past and redeeming the past, from We Confess! The Civil War, the South, and the Church.

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Faded black-and-white of four Union soldiers from the Seventy-Seventh Pennsylvania regiment (with one on horseback), outside Shiloh Church at the time of the battle
“In the very center of this dreadful contest, so destructive to life and limb, stood this humble, little log-church, from which the great battle of Shiloh took its name.”

Shiloh

  • Post category:Times and Seasons
  • Post last modified:March 16, 2024

“In the very center of this dreadful contest, so destructive to life and limb, stood this humble, little log-church, from which the great battle of Shiloh took its name.” April…

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