Hello SHAF Members!

We are thrilled to announce our 2022 Annual Membership Meeting is ON! We will meet on Antietam Battlefield at the Mumma Farm barn at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday April 30. If you do not know where that is, follow the tour route to the Mumma Family Cemetery and turn into the house & barn driveway just past the cemetery.

Our agenda will include welcoming remarks from Tom Clemens, president, SHAF, greetings and updates from Antietam National Battlefield Superintendent Dr. Susan Trail, a financial report from SHAF Treasurer Bill Maharay, a recap of SHAF activities since our last meeting in 2019, elections of Board members and a presentation from SHAF Board member Sharon Murray of her research on Col. B.F. “Grimes” Davis of the 8 NY Cavalry. We plan to record the meeting and put it on our website. (Live broadcast is difficult as reception of the battlefield is not good.)

We will have SHAF logo hats, shirts, tote bags, etc. for sale. Also, some Civil War books and we have a few items for silent auction too! These include a beautiful, wooded bowl turned from wood harvested from the battlefield, an 1890’s framed copy of the July 1863 Vicksburg (MS) newspaper printed on the back of wallpaper, and a square piece of granite from the same stone used for the Irish Brigade monument on Bloody Lane. It is a numbered commemorative piece evidently used in fund-raising for the monument.

After the meeting, those who care to can join us in a car-caravan to look at the property we purchased this past year.

As always, we thank you for your support and encouragement, and we look forward to seeing you soon!