Antietam National Battlefield
The National Park Service site that commemorates where 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing after 12 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 Abraham Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
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Local Phone: 301-432-5124
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January 16, 2022
susanwinetastingSpend a Few Hours or the Day
Antietam is not all monuments as some battlefields are. There are beautiful rolling hills and farms, making it somewhat difficult to imagine the bloody conflicts that took place. There is a map...
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Curtis PAntietam is my Maryland!
The visitor center was most helpful to me. First two park rangers helped field my questions. I found a book that was also very helpful, it was about the farms on the battlefield and how they were...
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