Decisive moment....

Does history make great men or do great men make history?  This episode explores a decisive moment in the Maryland campaign and how the flow of history may find its course.

SHOW NOTES:

The "moment maketh the man" Because you have to have fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch/v=VJBpGrWr_o0       Go to the 3:35 mark for a laugh

LINKS:
Save Historic Antietam Foundation

www.shaf.org

SOURCES:

Jacob Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht, Jacob. The Diary of Jacob Engelbrecht, 1818-1878. Frederick, MD: Historical Society of Frederick County, 1976. 

Page 949

Wade Hampton

Official Records of the War of the Rebellion. Vol. 19. Washington: War Department, War Records Office, 1897. 

Part 1 pages 822-23

Jacob Cox

"Forcing Fox's Gap and Turner's Gap"  Nichols, Roy F. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Vol. 2. New York, NY: R. Yoseloff, 1956. 

Pages 583-4

Heros Von Brocke

Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence. Vol 1. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866