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As Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg marks the battle's 160th anniversary, staff there are focusing on showing visitors a more comprehensive account of the bloody confrontation. “We’re trying to reach a broader audience,” Park Ranger Keith Snyder said.
For the better part of 160 years, military historians have been poring over the movements of Union and Confederate soldiers through southern Washington County in the waning days of the summer of 1862 and piecing together the conditions that led to the worst single-day carnage in American history.
For the better part of 160 years, military historians have been poring over the movements of Union and Confederate soldiers through southern Washington County in the waning days of the summer of 1862 and piecing together the conditions that led to the worst single-day carnage in American history.
For the better part of 160 years, military historians have been poring over the movements of Union and Confederate soldiers through southern Washington County in the waning days of the summer of 1862 and piecing together the conditions that led to the worst single-day carnage in American history.
For most of the American Reconstruction period following the Civil War, a one-room chapel on Sharpsburg’s E. High Street served as church and school for the local African American community.