I am a lifelong student of military history with a particular interest in the Civil War. 
It started as a small lad in the early 60s (that’s 1960s!).  I received the The Golden Book of the Civil War, with an introduction by Bruce Catton.  Fond memories of poring over the maps and seeing the tiny soldiers of the Blue and Gray blazing away in lines of battle remain with me still.

My perspective comes from a 28 year career in the United States Army.  Travels took me to World War II battlefields in Europe and the Pacific where American valor ended the tyranny of Nazism and Empire.  America faced its greatest challenge eighty years earlier during the Civil War.  And it was the critical summer and fall of 1862, when Robert E. Lee launched the Maryland Campaign, that fortune could have gone either way. 

A passion of mine is the individual stories of the leaders and men who came here.  Antietam was one day of their lives - an important and for some, final day - but just one day none the less.  How they got here and where they went afterward is for me a great interest.  

I am pleased to offer my interpretation to groups and families of all sizes and truly enjoy sharing the story with young and old alike.

So join me in exploring the Maryland
Campaign.  Our journey will take us to the
quiet fields and woodlots around Sharpsburg,
to places famous and obscure, where
America’s fate was decided.  It is a sacred
place where 23,000 Americans fell defending
their way of life.