NEWS
June 27, 2004
LOCATION From U.S. 15 take the Steinwehr Avenue exit. Go north on Steinwehr Avenue 200 yards. Turn left onto Bull Frog Road (about 1.5 miles). Turn right onto Pumping Station Road (about 1.5 miles) to the re-enactment site. FRIDAY, JULY 2 8:30 a.m.: Gates open 9 a.m.: Cavalry exhibition (Tent 1); medical demonstration (Tent 2) 10 a.m.: Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet (Tent 1); Civil War spies (Tent 2) 11 a.m.: U.S. generals (Tent 1); Confederate generals (Tent 2) Noon: Confederate Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill (Tent 1)
SPORTS
By Lem Satterfield and Lem Satterfield,SUN STAFF | April 5, 2004
Mount St. Joseph wrestler Andrew Gold defeated four state champions and a state runner-up en route to a third-place finish at 112 pounds in the National High School Seniors Wrestling Championships at the Cleveland Convention Center. Old Mill's Doug West was fifth at 130 pounds, joining Gold in earning high school All-America status for finishing among the top eight in their respective weight classes in the three-day event that ended yesterday. "Coming into the tournament, I was under the impression that a lot of the guys here were either first or second in their states, so I tried to raise the level of intensity I went out with," said Gold, a University of Pennsylvania-bound, two-time Maryland private schools champ.
NEWS
By Stephanie Desmon and Stephanie Desmon,SUN STAFF | December 1, 2002
SHARPSBURG - Talk at the Piper House often turns to the spectacular fighting that took place just outside this bed-and-breakfast during the bloody Battle of Antietam during the Civil War. It's up to the imagination to picture the apple orchard full of clashing soldiers from the North and South. Though this building - which in 1862 served as headquarters of Confederate General James Longstreet - still stands, the orchard disappeared a century ago, replaced in time by a hayfield and a smattering of cedar trees.
NEWS
August 25, 2002
Headquarters Army of Northern Virginia September 9, 1862 1. The citizens of Fredericktown being unwilling while overrun by members of this army, to open their stores, in order to give them confidence, and to secure to officers and purchasing supplies for benefit of this command, all officers and men of this army are strictly prohibited from visiting Fredericktown except on business, in which cases they will bear evidence of this in writing from division...
NEWS
By Regina Puleo and Regina Puleo,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | June 16, 2002
When Confederate plans went awry on June 26, 1862, Confederate Maj. Gen. A.P. Hill decided to wage a costly offensive against Union Brig. Gen. Fitz John Porter at Beaver Dam Creek. Unsupported, Hill's forces were repulsed and defeated. Hill expected Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's arrival imminently as he forced a crossing of the Chickahominy River and led his six brigades known as the Light Division through the town of Mechanicsville to encounter Porter's corps entrenched behind Beaver Dam Creek.
NEWS
By John Rivera and John Rivera,SUN STAFF | June 28, 1998
The dawning of the third day at Gettysburg found the Confederate troops still occupying Seminary Ridge while the Union army was stretched from Little Round Top on the left in a fishhook to Culp's Hill on the right.Gen. Robert E. Lee still thought he could break through the federal line and ordered up the division of Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's 1st Corps, which had been left the previous day at Chambersburg, Pa., to guard the Confederate supply trains.Longstreet, who preferred the strategy of taking strong defensive positions and waiting for the enemy to attack, opposed Lee's plan to attack the Union line straight on. Longstreet writes in his account of Gettysburg in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" that he told Lee he thought the wisest course was to move around the Union left, find good defensive ground and wait for the Union army to attack.