Lansing Torch Club
Save the Flags was honored to be the featured speaker at the September meeting of the Lansing Torch Club at Coral Gables restaurant in East Lansing. The talk was delivered on September 17, 2025, and commemorated the 163rd anniversary of the bloody September 17, 1862, Civil War battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) Maryland. On that day over 23,000 American soldiers became casualties, marking it as the single bloodiest day in American history. Included in the presentation was information about Lt. Jack Whitman, a Lansing soldier who was mortally wounded at Antietam leading his men in the northern portion of the Miller cornfield. Lt. Whitman was returned to Lansing and is buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Save the Flags would like to thank the members of the Torch Club for their kind invitation.
The 24-acre cornfield of D.R. Miller, courtesy of Antietam National Battlefield.
(left) Grave of Lt. Jack Whitman, Mt. Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Michigan Section A, Lot 97, Graves 6 & 7. (right) CDV of Lt. Whitman, courtesy of the Brian T. White Collection.