The map covers about 12 square miles of the battlefield. Courtesy of the New York Public Library The Union Army arrived at Antietam in hopes of halting a Confederate invasion of Maryland.

Antietam National Battlefield Antietam NB protects and interprets a key battle during the US Civil War. The park gives visitors the opportunity to explore an autoroute, hiking trails through the ...

A newly discovered 150-year-old map of the Civil War’s Battle of Antietam shows thousands of graves of Union and Confederate soldiers killed near Sharpsburg, Md., in 1862.

A long-forgotten Civil War map has recently been rediscovered, shedding new light on the bloody aftermath of the battle of Antietam.

The Antietam Elliott Map, like its Gettysburg counterpart, shows significant detail about how the battlefield appeared in the aftermath of fighting.

Historians Brooks Simpson and Mark Grimsley lead a group on a day-long tour of Antietam National Battlefield, the 1862 engagement that is considered the bloodiest single day in American history ...

The National Park Service says it wants to expand the Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg to include about 500 acres in neighboring West Virginia where Civil War soldiers fought the ...

There are several other Confederate monuments at Antietam and at Civil War battlefields across the region. It's unclear if this fight will spread. Download the WUSA9 app here.

President Donald Trump's salary, which he promised to give away, will go toward two restoration projects at Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland.

Antietam National Battlefield is one of my favorite Civil War sites, even though it appears my ancestor missed this fight, the bloodiest day of any battles in the war. About 23,000 soldiers were ki… ...