The Union commander received a mortal wound at the Battle of Antietam
Nick Picerno, Chairman Emeritus, Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation
Brig. Gen. Joseph Mansfield was 58 years old when he took command of the 12th Corps of the Army of the Potomac on September 15, 1862, just two days before the Battle of Antietam. As his troops advanced into the fury of the battle, Mansfield rode too close to the front line and suffered a mortal wound, dying the next day. This riveting talk will discuss the circumstance of his wounding and the controversy over exactly where the general suffered his fatal injury.
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Nick Picerno is Chairman-Emeritus of the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation. He also serves as Vice-President of the Lincoln Society of Virginia, and he is on the Advisory Board of Kennesaw State University’s Center for the Study of the Civil War Era. He is a former member of both the board of trustees of the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia, and the Board of Directors of the Lee-Jackson Education Foundation of Charlottesville. He has published articles in both Civil War Times and America’s Civil War magazines and has contributed to scores of books on American Civil War history. Picerno’s research focuses on the history of the 1st -10th & 29th Maine Infantry.
