![]() His assistants, Susan Fair and Jeff Brown.Ī small sign out front of one of them noted I had arrived at my destination - the Boonsborough Museum of History. At Boonsboro, the quaint town at the foot of South Mountain, I made a left, drove several hundred yards down Main Street and parked in the tiny gravel lot between two buildings.īoonsborough Museum of History owner/director Doug Bast with So, one afternoon, I made the 6 1/2-mile drive from Sharpsburg up the old Boonsboro Pike (Route 34), past such familiar landmarks as the historic Philip Pry House, Bonnie's At The Red Byrd restaurant (eye-opening coffee!), the Crystal Grotto Caverns and Potomac Street Creamery. I had read about a small, private museum in nearby Boonboro, Md., and its outstanding Civil War collection. My "Power Tour" routine: Up at 5:30 a.m., drive the battlefield for several hours, lunch in nearby Shepherdstown, W.Va., walk the battlefield for hours in the afternoon, dinner and a cold beer or two at Captain Benders Tavern after dark in Sharpsburg and head back to my room at the excellent Jacob Rohrbach Inn, a short walk up Main Street.īut on this trip I was eager to see something different. Like this blog on Facebook | Follow me on TwitterĪ decade or so ago, when we still lived in Texas, I took my annual Civil War trip to Antietam. The arm is not believed to have come from a Civil War soldier. Top: A mummified human arm embedded with a minie ball to simulate a Civil War wound.īottom, from left, a relic pyramid and an ambrotype of Confederate officer Henry Kyd Douglas, who You never know what you might discover.Ī deep blue sky provided a nice backdrop for this image of St. Take the back roads the next time you are in the area. They were re-buried in the church cemetery and marked with a stone. In the 1970s, skeletal remains were found during road construction near the church, perhaps the remains of slaves or Civil War soldiers. A burned beam from the original building is in the church hall. The Union army burned the church in September 1862 and it remained a shell until it was rebuilt in 1869. He told me about a man from Georgia who visited once with his ancestor's Civil War diary, which noted that amputated arms and limbs of Rebel wounded were piled high outside the church. ![]() But a parishioner kindly answered my questions. Unshaven for several days and wearing a ragged pair of shorts, I wasn't exactly dressed for church when I walked up the steep steps to the entrance shortly before the service began. Even more brutal fighting in Sharpsburg, Md., just 10 miles from here, was still days away. Luke's Episcopal Church in tiny Brownsville, Md., was used as a makeshift hospital by the Rebels after they retreated from fighting nearby at Crampton's Gap and elsewhere in mid-September 1862. Like most old buildings in the area, this one has a rich history. It was a perfect day: deep blue skies, temperature in the low 70s, low humidity. On my way from Harpers Ferry, W.Va., to Boonsboro, Md., last Sunday, I stopped at this beautiful, little church. Skeletal remains were found near the church The inside of the church, which was burned by the Union army and re-built in 1869.
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