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| The Sunken Road or 'Bloody Lane' as it would later be known as at Antietam Battlefield near Sharpsburg, Maryland |
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Ghosts of Antietam - Sharpsburg, Maryland
The small town of Sharpsburg, Maryland lies in the
narrow strip of the state between Virginia and Pennsylvania. Just east
of the town winds a small stream known as Antietam Creek bordered by
farms. This patch of farmland would forever change when the Confederate
and Union Armies clashed one September day in 1862. The Battle of
Antietam became known as the bloodiest day of the Civil War with over
twenty three thousand men dead or wounded in a single day and many those
souls, still linger.
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