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
Hours
See website for hours.
Contact
Local Phone: 301-432-5124
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September 09, 2025
Ward DA must-see stop for American Civil War buffs and pretty much every American citizen.
Antietam ranks right up there with Gettysburg because it stopped Lee’s first invasion of the North and gave Lincoln the chance to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. This bloody conflict changed the...
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August 02, 2025
AmusementparkguyA Must Do Experience
This historic battlefield is a must for any American. The ten stops in this place give visitors a better idea of this bloodiest one-day battlefield of the Civil War.
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