Keven Walker, Antietam National Battlefield Historian, will give the presentation Connecticut at Antietam, in the Wykeham Room of the Gunn Library at the Gunn Memerial Museum on Sunday, Oct. 9 at 2 p.m..
Antietam is known as the bloodiest single-day battle in American history with about 23,000 casualties after 12 hours of savage combat on Sept. 17, 1862. Twelve Washington men fought at the battle of Antietam in Sharpsburg, Maryland.
Learn about what these men faced and endured in one of the Civil War’s signature battles. Keven Walker is a long-time employee of the National Park Service and the author of the book, Antietam Farmsteads: A Guide to the Battlefield Landscape. This presentation is not to be missed!
The Gunn Museum’s exhibit, Letters from the Battlefield: Stories of Washington’s Civil War Soldiers, will be open for viewing before and after this presentation, from 12-4 p.m.. The exhibit runs through Oct. 30.
This program is free and open to the public. It is made possible due to the support of the Community Foundation of Northwest Connecticut. Registration is requested, but not required.
The Gunn Museum is located at 5 Wykeham Road, at the intersection of Wykeham Road and Route 47, on Washington Green. Call the museum at 860 868-7756 or view www.gunnlibrary.org for information.
Sure sounds like it would be a fascinating piece of history to exhibit! Any idea when the exhibit will reopen again??
-Jackie @ Home Appraisal CT