Central PA Civil War Round Table to Meet in July

The Central PA Civil War Round Table will meet on Tuesday evening, July 5, at the PA Military Museum auditorium, 51 Boal Road, in Boalsburg, beginning at 7 p.m.

Nicholas Picerno will speak on “The Controversial Wounding of General Joseph Mansfield at Antietam.”

Picerno has researched this controversy thoroughly and will have a PowerPoint presentation and unpublished photographs and letters on this subject which he will share with all attendees. This Sept. 17 marks the 160th anniversary of the great Battle of Antietam, Maryland, in which General Mansfield wrongly shouted, “You are firing on you...