September 16, 2012 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Antietam. James McPherson, Civil War historian, and Edwin Bearss, former National Park Service chief historian, each talked about the B… ...

The Antietam Battlefield National Park is where the most lethal single-day battle in American History took place. The Civil War Battle of Antietam took place on September 17th, 1862, and left ...

SHARPSBURG — Among the 4,776 Civil War Union dead buried at Antietam National Cemetery are 1,836 whose names will never be known. They are buried in graves marked only by a number, often ...

Battlefield Burial A sailor who died in the suspected terrorist bombing of the U.S.S. Cole will be buried at Antietam National Cemetery -- a Civil War cemetery that has been closed since the ...

Owing to the want of facilities for reaching the grounds of the romantic and hitherte rather secluded site of the National Cemetery at Antietam, there has been some doubt as to the dedication ...

The cemetery, along Md. 34, was dedicated Sept. 17, 1867, exactly five years after the Battle of Antietam, and the event drew more than 10,000 people, including President Andrew Johnson, Trail said.

Plans are in the works at Antietam National Battlefield to improve the historical experience for its 330,000 annual visitors, including changes that could take up to a decade to implement.Long ...

SHARPSBURG, Md. -- It was a foggy morning on Sept. 17, 1862, when two armies, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia led by Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Army of the Potomac commanded by Gen ...

Andrew Banasik, superintendent at Monocacy National Battlefield, will leave his post to become Antietam National Battlefield’s superintendent May 19. Banasik is a Civil War history enthusiast ...

Nov. 6, 2011: Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md., is a serene setting once wracked by violence in the bloodiest one-day battle on U.S. soil - file photo. (The Associated Press) ...

The battle at Antietam is so-named because it took place along the Antietam Creek. On Sept. 17, 1862, 23,000 soldiers were either killed, wounded or missing after 12 hours of savage combat.