Hey everyone, welcome to episode number 200 of our Civil War podcast.

My name is Rich and I'm Tracy. Hello y'all. Thanks for tuning into the podcast.

Well, we're back. We're back. We're moved, although we're still here in Colorado,

and I've had my eye surgery and can see again, kind of. But with all of that, it

was a pretty stressful couple or three weeks, but I think our marriage has survived.

I think so. We should be good until apomatics now. Our marriage? Yes, I hope so. And after

three different surgeries in just over a year, I hope I'm good on that front also for a while.

But in my old age, I'm just kind of falling apart, I guess. Rich. Okay, so anyway, as we mentioned

on Facebook and the website and whatnot, when we moved, we counted and we have 31 boxes

of Civil War books. So yeah, that's a lot of Civil War books. And that doesn't even include World

War II or Napoleon or anything else. Yeah, it was a lot of books. And not all of them are unpacked

yet, but we did get enough unpacked to cobble together this episode for you guys.

Episode number 200. Woohoo! That is something of a milestone, right? Pretty cool. Some of you

had been asking if we were going to do anything special for our 200th episode. But after being off

of the podcast for a month or so, I think just getting back to recording is special enough. Although

we are kind of sad that after 199 episodes, we aren't recording in our old spot in the kitchen

anymore. Here in our new place, we're recording at the dining room table. And it's kind of weird,

but we'll get used to it, I'm sure. All right, so that's probably enough catching up. Let's get back

to the Civil War. As y'all know, through a long day of vicious combat back and forth across

the Maryland countryside, around the town of Sharpsburg, the day to the Battle of Antietam,

September 17th, 1862, became the bloodiest single day of the Civil War so far. In fact,

that was a record that was not to be surpassed over the next two and a half years of bitter fighting.

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