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Tom_Fields Says: Antietam Creek winds its way through the rolling Maryland countryside. It's a peaceful landscape now, and it's difficult to imagine what happened here in 1862.The Union commander, General McClellan, received a copy of Confederate General Lee's battle plan, complete with a...
Toughluck Says: Ferry Hill overlooks the Potomac River and Shepardstown, West Virginia. The Cheseapeake and Ohio Canal preserves this high point and the Maryland shore of the Potomac. 184 1/2 Miles of AdventureThe Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park is 184.5 miles (295.2 km) of...
Toughluck Says: The Bloodiest One Day Battle in American History23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing after twelve hours of savage combat on September 17, 1862. The Battle of Antietam ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia’s first invasion into the North and led to...
The Southern Battlefields (Burnside's Bridge)
Ewingjr98 Says: Burnside's Corps was ordered to attack across the Antietam Creek against a small Confederate outpost on the ridge overlooking a stone bridge. After numerous disastrous frontal assaults against this bridge, a part of his forces finally were able to cross downstream at...
The Northern Battlefields (The Cornfield)
Ewingjr98 Says: The battle opened at dawn as Hooker's corps struck Stonewall Jackson's forces across the Cornfield, East Woods, and West Woods with the goal being Dunker Church. Meanwhile JEB Stuart directed artillery at the Union flank from nearby Nicodemus Hill. The four-hour struggle...
The Central Battlefields (Bloody Lane)
Ewingjr98 Says: By midmorning the heaviest fighting shifted south. Sumner's corps struck DH Hill's Confederate corps at the center of Lee's lines. The heaviest fighting took place at a road worn into the earth called Sunken Lane, but later became known as Bloody Lane. After numerous...
Ewingjr98 Says: Harper's Ferry, at the border of Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia, and at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, was a strategic Civil War location with lots of history. Long before the war, Harper's ferry was established as a manufacturing and...
Side trip to South Mountain Battlefield
Ewingjr98 Says: The Battle of South Mountain took place just three days before Antietam, on 14 September 1862. The fighting occurred on three separate fields at Turner's Gap, Fox's Gap, and Crampton's Gap. The conflict began in the morning at Turner's and Fox's Gaps where the battle...
mtncorg Says: There a couple of interesting monuments of note in the Antietam National Cemetery. One is another monument to the 20th New York - the Turner Regiment. This monument is inscribed in both German and English reflected the two World's these men lived between. The unit suffered...
mtncorg Says: The soldiers are buried in plots that are clustered by the State the soldier was from, though the largest State - for a good third of the men here - is Unknown. There are more than 200 post-Civil war veterans - and their wives - also buried here. These graves are located at...
mtncorg Says: On top of a hill on the east end of Sharpsburg sits the Antietam National Cemetery. There were some 23000 casualties as a result of the one day battle here in 1862 - slightly more from the Union side. Some of those Federals have been gathered here to be interred in the...
Monument where one officer was...
Beachdave Says: Monument where one officer was killed.
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Sunken road beside corn field...
Beachdave Says: Sunken road beside corn field where many men were killed this day. View from observation tower.
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Another view from Observation...
Beachdave Says: Another view from Observation tower.
Observation tower. This was...
Beachdave Says: Observation tower. This was built so that the visitors to the battlefield could see the entire area.
1 Review and 118 Opinions The Jacob Rohrbach Inn makes a perfect base from which to venture out to the battlefields of...
CAPTAIN BENDERS TAVERN: Local Pub to ease the History
mtncorg Says: Sharpsburg is not a large town so there is not much to choose from for dining out. Captain Bender's Tavern is a good choice for hearty, light fare. Wash down that special burger with a pint or two of local Antietam Ale. A perfect end to a day of battlefield strolling. My...
American Deli * Coffee: Deli dining
wilsonjw Says: Centrally located deli with great food
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Beachdave's new Sharpsburg Page
I did not visit this place to view the town of Sharpsburg therefore I do not have any photographs of Sharpsburg. I stopped to see the civil war battlefield. Antietam was and is the "Bloodiest Day in...
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Sharpsburg Caught in the middle of War
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SHARPSBURG - QUIET BEFORE THE STORM
This quiet little rural Maryland town dates back into the 18th Century. On the farm fields surrounding the town, one of the fiercest battles of the American Civil War was waged on September 17, 1862,...
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Sharpsburg & the Battle of Antietam
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Out of all the battlefields I have visited, this is the one where I felt the spirit of the Civil War. It is located about 20 miles south of Hagerstown, MD on MD State Route 65. Here is a picture of......
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