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 re-airing On Saturday, November 11 at 8:00 am
http://www.booktv.org/History/index.asp?segID=7367&schedID=463

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I did not intend to record this, since it looked like one of those “reenactors” events that I generally don’t see as worthy of attention.
However, I did get part of it b/c the first airing followed a program about China that I did want to record. I think this one really is
worthwhile.

On CSpan-2:
http://www.booktv.org/History/index.asp?segID=7367&schedID=450

On Sunday, September 17 at 2:15 pm and at 8:15 pm

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Antietam National Battlefield Tour
Gary Gallagher        Description: Civil War scholar and author Gary Gallagher takes a group of high school history teachers from Taos, New Mexico on a tour of Antietam National Battlefield Park in Sharpsburg, Maryland. Professor Gallagher discusses events leading up to the Battle of Antietam, the battle itself, and the political issues affected by Antietam. Fought on September 17th, 1862, the battle of Antietam is still the bloodiest day in American military history with over 23,000 killed, wounded or missing after twelve hours of combat.Author Bio: Gary Gallagher has written six books and edited dozens of others. His works include “The Confederate War” Harvard University Press, 1997, “Lee and His Generals in War and Memory” Louisiana State University Press, 1998, and “Lee and His Army in Confederate History” University of North Carolina Press, 2001. He has edited several military campaign series including a collection of essays called “The Antietam Campaign.” For more information about Gary Gallagher, visit his University of Virginia webpage: http://www.virginia.edu/history/faculty/gallagher.htmlhttp://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=195011841

Tour
Antietam National Battlefield
C-SPAN, BookTV
Sharpsburg, Maryland (United States)
ID: 191885 - 07/15/2006 - 0:43 - $29.95

Gallagher, Gary W.

Professor, University of Virginia, American History

Gary Gallagher conducted a tour of the Antietam National Battlefield. The tour was given to high school history teachers from Taos, New Mexico, as part of a U.S. Department of Education program called Teaching American History.

~Portions included in program ID 192900.