Culture - History

Commemorating Texas soldiers who fought for the Confederacy at Antietam (Sharpsburg), Maryland, USA, in the US Civil War, September 16-17, 1862. September 17, 1862 remains the bloodiest day in US history, with 22,717 total casualties. Position on the map is as best as I can remember. "Antietam" is pronounced "an-TEE-tam", btw.

Site of one of the most savage encounters at the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) in the US Civil War, Sept. 16-17, 1862. Elements of the opposing sides were firing at near point-blank range in a field of standing corn (i.e., maize, in US usage). Antietam is pronounced an-TEE-tum, btw. Kind of a contrast to the peaceful Maryland countryside today. The site is now a US historic park.

Womer Cemetery, Womer, Kansas. Obviously served on the Union side in the US Civil War (a.k.a. The War Between the States). The star is the emblem of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.)

Womer Cemetery, Womer, Kansas. Obviously served on the Union side in the US Civil War (a.k.a. The War Between the States). The star off the lower right of the gravestone is the emblem of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.)

Womer Cemetery, a small churchyard cemetery in rural north-central Kansas. The small stake with a disk on top to the right of the headstone is the medallion of the American Legion, so presumably he died in France, in what was then optimistically termed "the" Great War. From remote rural Kansas to a battlefield in France--there's nothing new about globalization.