Four Points by Sheraton Hagerstown

Antietnam Battlefield

by frankcanfly

Located about 10 miles south of Hagerstown in Sharpsburg, is the Antietam National Battlefield

Established by Act of Congress on August 30, 1890, this Civil War site marks the end of General Robert E. Lee`s first invasion of the North in September 1862.

Known as the bloodiest battle in the civil War, it claimed more than 23,000 men killed, wounded, and missing in one single day, September 17,1862, and led to Lincoln`s issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.