Antietam Civil War Relic Dug in the East Woods 1967 Earl Gooding Mule Horseshoe for Sale

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Antietam Civil War Relic Dug in the East Woods 1967 Earl Gooding Mule Horseshoe For Sale

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Antietam Civil War Relic Dug in the East Woods 1967 Earl Gooding Mule Horseshoe:
$40.00

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THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM ~ RECOVERED ON OCTOBER 21, 1967 (That was just a few days ago this month, 56 years ago) IN THE EAST WOODS (the area of recovery is circled on the map) ~ DUG BY AND FROM THE COLLECTION OF EARL L. GOODING ~This Civil War relic iron horseshoe or mule shoe (I believe it is probably a mule shoe) was recovered in the East Woods (at the time it was private property and the digger had permission to hunt there) by Earl Gooding, one of the great early relic hunters, of Southern Maryland. It is about half of the shoe and was one of only a few relics in the pinbox (not included, however copies of the images will be included along with a provenance letter) that Earl kept his finds in. The two shoe halves that were in the box were NOT from the same shoe. This relic measures about 5 3/8\" long by 1 1/8\" wide and weighs 4.7 ounces.As the sun rose on September 17, 1862, Major General Joseph Hooker and his I Corps initiated the opening act on what became America\'s bloodiest single day.
General George G. Meade\'s division of Pennsylvania Reserves pressed south into the East Woods, and toward David Miller\'s \"Cornfield.\" The Federals were met by Confederate artillery
and infantry commanded by General Thomas J. \"Stonewall\" Jackson and Col. Stephen D. Lee. More Federals commanded Gen. James Ricketts joined the fray, as Jackson began to shift troops
toward the front. The 13th Pennsylvania Reserves, known as the \"Bucktails,\" engaged with the 31st Georgia near a property soon to known as the \"Epicenter.\" By 6 am, the Battle of Antietam
was raging in the fields and woods north of the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland.A small engagement took place in this area the night before the battle. The fighting also opened here early on September 17 as Union and Confederate soldiers exchanged deadly musket volleys, vying to control these woods.\"The shells crashing through the trees and fluttering overhead as well as the musketry… all contributed to mark the time, and place, fixed in one\'s memory forever.\"
Diary of Sergeant Charles Broomhall, 124th Pennsylvania InfantryThe first infantry engagement at Antietam took place here during the early evening hours of September 16. As darkness fell, Federal soldiers from Hooker\'s First Corps clashed with Confederates under Stonewall Jackson. The opposing picket lines exchanged fire throughout the damp and dismal night.Shortly before sunrise on September 17, First Corps soldiers advanced through the East Woods and engaged Confederates posted along Mumma Farm Lane behind you. During the next three hours the woodlot changed hands numerous times as both sides pushed reinforcements into the fray.Finally, near 8:00 a.m., the Union Twelfth Corps drove the Confederates from this area for the last time that day. The Twelfth Corps soldiers had taken the woods, but they lost their commander Gen. Joseph K.F. Mansfield.Gen. Joseph King Fenno Mansfield entered West Point age the age of fourteen, graduating 2nd in the Class of 1822. Fifty-nine years old at Antietam, one of Mansfield\'s men described him as \"venerable, but not old; white haired, yet fresh and vigorous, his face showed that intelligent courage which a soldier admires.\" Confusion reigned in the East Woods as the Twelfth Corps advanced. Gen. Mansfield rode to the front telling his men to stop shooting, \"You are firing into your own men!\" He was wrong. Just then a Confederate bullet went through his chest. Carried to the rear through the \"tornado of deadly missiles,\" Mansfield died within 24 hours. He was one of six generals killed at Antietam.It was Confederate Gen. Alexander Lawton\'s soldiers who took the brunt of the initial Union attacks. At dawn, Lawton\'s Division of approximately 2,500 men were in the open ground south of the Cornfield and the East Woods. In the furious fighting across this ground, over 1,100 of Lawton\'s Confederates were killed or wounded. Lawton, educated at West Point and Harvard University, was also wounded. He survived the Civil War and became president of the American Bar Association in 1882. He was appointed minister to Austria in 1887, and died there in 1896. All of the collections that we are offering for sale are guaranteed to be authentic, and are either older recoveries, found before the 1960s when it was still legal to metal detect battlefields, or were recovered on private property with permission. Land on Battlefields that is now Federally owned, or owned by the Trust, was acquired after the items were recovered. We will not buy or sell any items that were recovered illegally, nor will we sell any items that we suspect were recovered illegally.
We include as much documentation with the relics as we possess. This includes copies of tags if there are identification tags or maps, as well as a signed letter of provenance with the specific recovery information.
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