Antietam Campaign
Lifelong Learning | Registration opens 1/8/2025 9:00 AM EST
Some historians consider the Antietam campaign to be the pivotal campaign of the Civil War. They believe that with its defeat, the South lost any hope of gaining their independence. Regardless, Antietam was the bloodiest single day in American military history, a day which produced 23,000 combined casualties, but which gave Lincoln the military victory he needed to announce his Emancipation Proclamation from a position of strength. This course examines the who, what, when, where, why, and how of this critical campaign and its aftermath.
David Albert
David Albert is a retired Air Force officer. As part of his 30 year active-duty career he spent almost 3 years in Berlin at Tempelhof Air Base, the terminus of the Berlin Airlift. As Deputy Commander for Support, he was one of the last of the American military to leave Tempelhof when it was returned to the German government in 1993. David also teaches various Civil War courses for the OSHER Lifetime Learning Institute (OLLI) program at Pitt and CMU and the Center for Lifetime Learning here at LaRoche.