An Interview with Scott Hartwig

 

Our Conversation with Scott Hartwig, Supervisory Historian at Gettysburg National Military Park and author of To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). We talk with Scott about his first volume on the Maryland Campaign and plans at Gettysburg to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the battle this coming July.

Leave a Reply

John Brown’s Raid

In October 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of obtaining the necessary weapons to armĀ a successful slave insurrection throughout…