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Mount Horeb Area Historical Society
2017 Annual Meeting
Sunday, October 15 @ 2pm
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The Mount Horeb Area Historical Society is proud to host Antietam National Battlefield Interpretive Guide and Historian Sharon Murray of West Virginia, who will present āA Friendship Forged in Battle: John Gibbon, the Iron Brigade and Battery B at Antietam and Beyond.ā
FREE. ALL WELCOME.
The Mount Horeb Area Historical Society
will hold its annual membership meeting on Sunday, October 15 at 2:00 p.m.
at the Driftless Historium Museum & Research Center (100 S 2nd St, Mt Horeb).
Following the business meeting, the featured speaker will take the stage. This year, through the generosity of Society supporter Andrew Burkart, the Society is proud to host Antietam National Battlefield Interpretive Guide and Historian Sharon Murray of West Virginia, who will present āA Friendship Forged in Battle: John Gibbon, the Iron Brigade and Battery B at Antietam and Beyond.ā
Sharon Murray is a native Idahoan with multiple degrees in mining engineering and history from the University of Idaho. Throughout her career, she worked in both underground and surface precious metal mines and in state government managing mineral leasing and mined land reclamation programs. In addition, she has published a number of articles on Idaho mining history and won awards for photography from the International California Mining Journal and the Civil War Trust.
Murray rediscovered her passion for the past -and specifically Civil War history-after a 2003 trip to Antietam and Gettysburg. Upon retiring, with undergraduate and graduate degrees in history, Sharon easily slipped back into the role of historian. In 2009, she made the decision retire and move east to pursue her growing passion for Civil War history.
After settling into West Virginia, Sharon started volunteering at Antietam National Battefield and adjacent Antietam National Cemetery. At Antietam, she is a Battlefield Ambassador on the field itself and, as a member of the parkās cannon detachment, she represents Battery B 4th US Artillery in living history performances. In 2014, Sharon became a certified guideāand is presently the only female guide.
Somewhere along the way, Sharon developed an interest in General John Gibbon, Battery B 4th US and the Iron Brigade, all of whom played a significant role in Antietamās morning fighting on the northern end of the field. Sharon found the relationship between the three to be fascinating, and her Annual Meeting presentation will explore this topic. She will provide a short history of each entity, how they became interconnected, their engagement at Antietam where the Iron Brigade was under John Gibbonās command and where Battery B was attached to the Iron Brigade to provide artillery support, and, finally, an overview of their continued connection after the Civil War.
The public is welcome, with refreshments offered to all guests.
For more information, call 608-437-6486 or email For more information, call 608-437-6486 or email mthorebhistory@mhtc.net.
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Mount Horeb Area Historical Society
Driftless Historium
100 S 2nd St
P.O. Box 238
Mount Horeb, WI 53572