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On the Antietam // The Fourteenth at Gettysburg // Tippoo Saib // Buried Alive

Harper's Weekly Text
January 3, 1863, p. 11 (2-4)

Synopsis

One boy gets the better of another in a street fight and the loser runs off, shouting threats.  Years afterward, the winner and his friends, now young men, are all in the same regiment, fighting in the Battle of Antietam.  Some of the young men fall as the regiment charges, but one, the winner of the street fight, seems to have a charmed life in the battle.  He is separated from his regiment while fighting a rebel soldier, whom he eventually kills.  As he recovers from the struggle, he sees a gun pointed at him.  Holding the gun is the young man he defeated in the street fight those many years ago.  Just as the bitter young man is about to fire and have his revenge, a stray bullet kills him.  Later, as he recounts this story to a friend, the surviving young man says he would not want to be in that situation again.


Additional Material Relevant to "On the Antietam"

Historical Background:

"Battle of Antietam"
October 4, 1862, p. 634 (1-3)

Military Background:

"Battle of Antietam"
October 18, 1862, p. 663 (4)

Commentary:

"After the Battle of Antietam"
July 4, 1863 p. 423 (4)

Illustrations:

"The Battle of Antietam, Fought September 17, 1862—Burnside Holding the Hill"
October 4, 1862, pp. 632-633

"The Battle of Antietam, Fought September 17, 1862—General Manfield's Corps in Position in the Centre"
October 11, 1862, pp. 648 (1) – 649 (4)

"Scenes of the Battlefield of Antietam"
October 18, 1862, pp. 664 (1) – 665 (4)

 


 
 
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