In Episode 14 of "The Antietam And Beyond Podcast," author/historian Steve Stotelmyer — an Antietam battlefield guide and "Wise guy" — talks with co-hosts John Banks and Tom McMillan about the legend of Daniel Wise's well (or was it a cistern?) at Fox's Gap, Robert E. Lee's serious injuries during the Maryland Campaign, unheralded battles in western Maryland (Hagan's Gap!) leading up to Antietam, Jesse Reno's death and much more.
Stotelmyer authored
The Bivouacs of the Dead: The Story of Those Who Died at Antietam and South Mountain (
Toomey Press),
Too Useful to Sacrifice: Reconsidering George B. McClellan’s Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam (
Savas Beatie)
and
From Frederick to Sharpsburg: People, Places, and Events of the Maryland Campaign Before Antietam (
Antietam Institute)
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McMillan is author of the recently released
Our Flag Was Still There. Banks is author of the recently released
A Civil War Road Trip Of A Lifetime. Find them on Facebook at
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