Join us on Saturday, April 26, 2025

Sponsored by the Shepherdstown Battlefield Preservation Association

Battlefield Tour and Talk by Author and Professor, Dr. Tom McGrath

The tour starts at the Osbourn Farm house at 1 pm at 1901 Trough Road.

The talk is at the Opera House, Shepherdstown at 7 pm.

The Fire of the Enemy was Appalling: Pender’s Brigade at the Battle of Shepherdstown.

On the morning of September 20, 1862, three Confederate brigades of A.P. Hill’s Division stepped off in line of battle in the fields near Shepherdstown.  They were there to confront an unknown number of Yankee troops then crossing Boteler’s Ford into Virginia.  Within minutes, the battle-tested brigade of Dorsey Pender found itself isolated from the rest of the division as rifle fire broke out and Federal artillery shells rained down upon them.  Hear the story of this Confederate unit in the battle of Shepherdstown, a violent contest that left 15 of their men dead and 48 wounded, many mortally.

Reference: T.A. McGrath (2007) Shepherdstown: Last Clash of the Antietam Campaign.

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