Battle of Antietam
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The Battle of Antietam, also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, took place during the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Ro
Depiction of the fighting near Dunker Church by Thure de Thulstrup
Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, Army of the Potomac (USA)
Gen. Robert E. Lee, Army of Northern Virginia (CSA)
Dead soldiers near the Dunker Church
Sharpsburg, Maryland
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Sharpsburg is a town in Washington County, Maryland. The town is about 13 miles south of Hagerstown. Its population was 560 at the 2020 census.
Battle of Antietam
…17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Major General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek. Part of the Maryland Campaign, it was the first field army–level engagement in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War to…
A street clock in downtown Sharpsburg, October 2007
A visitor's sign at the Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg, in June 2005
MD 34 eastbound along Main Street in Sharpsburg