Layers of History at Antietam: The Mumma Family's Loss
Channel: Preservation Maryland
Date: 2020-09-17

THE MUMMA FAMILY'S LOSS

"...a set of farm buildings in our front were set on fire to prevent them being made use of by the enemy." - Confederate General Roswell S. Ripley

As America confronts the history and legacy of its Civil War, Preservation Maryland Executive Director Nicholas Redding recently visited the Antietam Battlefield, located in Sharpsburg, Maryland, to chronicle just a few of the site's untold stories and unique layers of history.

In this short introduction to the layers of history at the Antietam Battlefield, viewers will explore the power of Antietam's full story and the value of a preserved landscape.

Redding makes a stop at the Mumma Farm, site of the only intentional destruction of civilian property on the battlefield -- and a documented site of slavery prior to the war. A place where the central cause of the war is rooted in the landscape.

All five video dispatches: presmd.org/antietamvideos.

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